Film Fatherland at OKCMOA
Set at the height of the Cold War, the luminous new drama from Cannes Best Director winner Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War, Ida) centers on the relationship between the writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall) as they embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a Germany in ruins. Fatherland is Poland's official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.
(2026) In German, French, English, and Russian with English subtitles. (82 minutes)
“Academy Award–nominated director Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War) specializes in narratively economical yet emotionally and philosophically expansive historical drama, and his latest film, which earned him a Best Director prize at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, might be his most potent and provocative yet. Set in the aftermath of World War II, Fatherland follows the Nobel Prize–winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika Mann (Sandra Hüller) on a fictionalized 1949 road trip across a torn Germany that’s at once reeling from the destruction of battle and in profound denial about its evils and culpability..” —New York Film Festival