With this, his new film, Pawel Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida (2013) and Cold War (2018), exploring - in his particular style - the themes of identity, family, love, and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.
Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika - acress, 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 Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar.
Returning home after 16 years of exhile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.
