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Fatherland (1986) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1986 · 111 mins · German
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- Directed by
- Ken Loach
- Starring
- Fabienne Babe, Bernard Bloch, Robert Dietl, Cristine Rose, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Patrick Gilbert
Protest singer Klaus Drittemann is declared persona non grata and leaves his wife and child in East Berlin for West Berlin, where an American record label aims to exploit his ideological defection. Rejecting the contract, he travels to Cambridge to meet his estranged father, a concert musician who fled thirty years earlier. He is accompanied by French journalist Emma, who may conceal crucial information.
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