Fatherland

Fatherland · 2026 ↗82 min

In 1949, after sixteen years of exile in the U.S., Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) embarks on a road trip across post-war Germany with his observant daughter, Erika (Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL). As they traverse a U.S.-dominated Frankfurt and Soviet-controlled Weimar, Mann is confronted by the ruins of a divided homeland and his fragmented family. Eight years after his Academy Award® nomination for Best Director (COLD WAR), Paweł Pawlikowski returns with an exceptionally profound, incisive, and visually haunting portrayal of Cold War-era Germany, continuing his exploration of identity, family, love, and guilt amid this uncertain period of Europe’s history. A MUBI release.