Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski 
2026 | 88 mins | Poland, Germany, Italy, France | German, English, French, Russian
Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Anna Madeley

Showing Times

• Fri 6 Nov: 1.30pm, 8.20pm
• Sat 7 Nov: 8pm
• Mon 9 Nov: 5.20pm
• Tue 10 Nov: 2pm, 8.20pm
• Tue 10 Nov: 8.20pm
• Wed 11 Nov: 6pm
• Thu 12 Nov: 8.20pm

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FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, 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 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 way – the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

BBFC Rating
Rated 12A – BBFC content warnings

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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