Fatherland 12A

"★★★★★ – an impossibly elegant, poised historical vignette" –Guardian

"★★★★ – requiem for lost ideals and lost loved ones" – Financial Times

"★★★★★ – another expansive, enriching work from a modern master" – Time Out

Winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes film festival, Paweł Pawlikowski’s (Ida, Cold War) poetic new drama centres on the relationship between Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Zischler) and his daughter Erika (the magnificent Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall) – actress, writer and rally driver.

In the summer of 1949, they embark on an emotional road trip in a black Buick across a Germany in ruins, from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. After sixteen years of exile, Thomas returns to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.

In German with English subtitles.