Fatherland (Bring Your Own Baby)

<div><b>Screening as part of our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/bring-your-own-baby">Bring Your Own Baby</a>&nbsp;screenings.</b></div><div><br></div><div>In a masterclass of control and precision, Paweł Pawlikowski explores the fragmented soul of postwar Germany through a father-daughter road trip dominated by personal ghosts.</div><div><br></div><div><div><i>Fatherland</i> 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.</div><div><br></div><div>With&nbsp;<i>Fatherland</i>, 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</div></div>DramaPT1H22M12A2026-10-26PLde
Sandra Hüller
Hanns Zischler
August Diehl
Paweł Pawlikowski
Edward Berger
Mario Gianani
Dimitri Rassam
Jeanne Tremsal
Lorenzo Mieli
Lorenzo Gangarossa
Ewa Puszczyńska
Fatherland (Bring Your Own Baby)"Fatherland (Bring Your Own Baby)"

Showtimes

October 26, 10:30 am

Filmhouse Cinema