Fatherland (1986)
Overview
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | de |
| Popularity | 1.985 |
Directed By
Ken Loach
Crew
Trevor Griffiths
Ken Loach
Martin Johnson
Antje Petersen
Herbert C. Kloiber
Chris Menges
Jonathan Morris
Fritz Buttenstedt
Marin Karmitz
Raymond Day
Irving Teitelbaum
Christian Kunert
Gerulf Pannach
Maggie Parsons
Maggie Parsons
TOP CAST
Gerulf Pannach
Klaus Dittemann
Fabienne Babe
Emma de Baen
Cristine Rose
Lucy Bernstein
Sigfrit Steiner
Dritteman/James Dryden
Heike Schroetter
Marita
Patrick Gilbert
Thomas
Stephan Samuel
Max
Heinz G. Diesing
Jürgen Kirsch
Eva Krutina
Rosa
Hans Peter Hallwachs
Rainer Schiff
Jim Rakete
Braun
Bernard Bloch
Journalist
Robert Dietl
East German Lawyer
Marlowe Shute
American Official
Winfried Tromp
Herr Hennig
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