Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida; Cold War) scooped the Best Director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival for Fatherland. Co-written with Henk Handloegten, the film is set in 1949 Germany. There we find writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter, the actress, author and race car driver Erika (Sandra Hüller), as they embark on a fraught road trip through a country attempting to rebuild itself.
August Diehl, Devid Striesow and Anna Madeley also star.
A release date has yet to be announced but you can check out the first trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) - actress, writer and rally driver.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.
