Thu, 12 Nov
|Palace Electric Cinemas
"Fatherland" Movie
Historical Drama: "A masterclass in artistic discipline.”
Time & Location
12 Nov 2026, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Palace Electric Cinemas, 2 Phillip Law St, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
About the event
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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