Purbeck Film Festival – Fatherland
- 7:00 pm–8:45 pm Book tickets
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. German with subtitles. Event supported by Burnbake.
