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486 - Fatherland
The third film in Paweł Pawlikowski's historical trilogy, after Ida (2013) and Cold War (2018), Fatherland follows one of the defining authors of the twentieth century, Thomas Mann, as he returns to Germany in 1949 with his daughter, Erika, after sixteen years away, finding his country effectively under occupation by the two new superpowers: the USA controlling the west, the Soviet Union controlling the east. The Manns encounter former Nazis (and continuing Nazi ideologues) forming the new polite society on one side, enthusiastic adherents to Communism and an alternative type of…
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