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Fatherland (12A)

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  • Corn Exchange Cinema
  • Full Price £7.80 - £9.80  / 
  • Concessions £6.30 - £8.30  / 
  • Special Screenings £6.30 (including booking fees)
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Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) - actress, writer and rally driver. 

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family. 

With Fatherland, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring –  in his elliptic, distilled style - the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

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Run time: 82 mins 

Director: Paweł Pawlikowski

Writers: Paweł Pawlikowski, Henk Handloegten

Starring: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl

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