Fatherland

Year: 1986

Runtime: 111 mins

Language: German

Director: Ken Loach

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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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