Fatherland

Nov 27 Friday, November 27 7 PM

Detroit Film TheaterDetroit

Event page: dia.org

From Oscar® nominated director Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida) comes a delicate, emotionally expansive historical drama set in 1949 that follows the Nobel Prize winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika Mann (Sandra Hüller of Anatomy of a Fall) on a fictionalized road trip across a Germany still reeling from the devastation of World War II – a nation in deep denial of its own culpability. Thomas Mann, revisiting his home after years of exile in the U.S., travels warily with his actress daughter across the strange new landscape of their now-unfamiliar country, revealing tense interpersonal dynamics and familial tragedies as they strive to come to grips with a shattered world that is at once alien yet deeply embedded in their memories. This eloquent, indelible portrait of birth of a new historical reckoning earned Pawlikowski the Best Director Prize at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. In German, English, Russian and French with English subtitles.“Stunning and beautiful... an exquisite study of family, identity, and art.” -Tomris Laffly, Elle

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Fatherland (2026)

dir. Paweł Pawlikowski · 1h 22m · TMDB 7.3

In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.

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