Fatherland

Fatherland centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, 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 deep fractures within his own family.

Best Director (Ex-aequo), Cannes 2026.

Original language: German, English, French, Russian.

Subtitles: Romanian, English.

Directed by: Paweł Pawlikowski.

Country: Poland, Germany, Italy, France.

Year of production: 2026.

Length: 82 minutes.

Genre: Drama.

Credits:

• Paweł Pawlikowski – Director
• Paweł Pawlikowski, Henk Handloegten – Script

Casting:

• Sandra Hüller
• Hanns Zischler
• August Diehl
• Devid Striesow
• Anna Madeley.