Pawel Pawlikowski Returns To Feature Filmmaking With Thomas Mann Drama ‘Fatherland’ — First Look Clip

EXCLUSIVE: After a long, eight-year hiatus, Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski has finally returned to feature filmmaking with Fatherland, which debuts this evening at the Cannes Film Festival. We can share a first-look clip from the film above. 

Pawlikowski directed the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hendrik Handloegten. Pawlikowski also co-edited the project with Piotr Wójcik. The film centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller). 

The official synopsis reads: “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.” 

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