Fatherland
Film details
| Film Title | Fatherland |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 82mins |
| Year | 2026 |
| Country | Poland, Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom |
| Director | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| Actors | Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Anna Madeley, Devid Striesow, David Menkin, Joachim Meyerhoff, Enno Trebs, Theo Trebs, Waldemar Kobus, Daniel Wagner, Fritzi Haberlandt, Milan Peschel, Joanna Kulig, Christophe Falconnet |
| AKA | Ojczyzna |
| Showings |
In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Here is an impossibly elegant, poised historical vignette whose brevity and control can hardly contain its characters’ personal and historical pain.
★★★★★
What makes the father-and-daughter generational double-act so effective of course rests on the casting: Sandra Hüller brings her clipped brilliance to the role.
★★★★
Fatherland is an elegant, engrossing film; chilly at times, but also poignant as repressed feelings finally bubble to the surface. This is another expansive, enriching work from a modern master.
★★★★★
About as sentimental as any film by the Polish auteur gets — which is to say not at all, despite one long-delayed tear finally shed — it’s another austere, rigorously crafted odyssey through European postwar regret.
★★★★
