‘Fatherland’s Pawel Pawlikowski At Cannes: “I’m Lost Today…That’s Why I Make Movies That Take Place In The Past”

You can never go home again is how the saying goes, and Pawel Pawlikowski‘s latest movie, Fatherland, illustrates that through the later life of Death in Venice author Thomas Mann.

He returns to his homeland Germany post war 1949, a place he’s fled. The director billed it as a five-day road movie, with Mann journeying his citizen of the world daughter, Erika; the duo unable to attend the funeral of Klaus, Mann’s son, Erika’s brother; due to their obligations on the road. Mann has been invited to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Goethe, Germany’s greatest man of letters. Both sides of the new border want to claim both Goethe and Mann as their own. However, the Mann family, who have fled to America, have problems with this given their disgruntlement with even the post Hitler state of their homeland.

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