Fatherland

Fatherland — Plot

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to the West, where representatives of an American record company are eagerly awaiting him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as in the East, is reluctant to be an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he departs for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who left East Berlin when Klaus was young. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who claims to have knowledge of where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade.

• Release date
• September 2, 1986
• Runtime
• 111 min
• Genres
• Drama, Music
• Director
• Ken Loach

Fatherland — Cast

G

Gerulf Pannach Klaus Dittemann Fabienne Babe Emma de Baen Cristine Rose Lucy Bernstein Sigfrit Steiner Dritteman/James Dryden Heike Schroetter Marita

P

Patrick Gilbert Thomas

S

Stephan Samuel Max

H

Heinz G. Diesing Jürgen Kirsch