Fatherland
6.2
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to the West, where representatives of an American record company are eagerly awaiting him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as in the East, is reluctant to be an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he departs for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who left East Berlin when Klaus was young. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who claims to have knowledge of where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade.
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Gerulf Pannach
Klaus Dittemann
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Fabienne Babe
Emma de Baen
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Frenchmen
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Lucy Bernstein
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Sigfrit Steiner
Dritteman/James Dryden
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Heike Schroetter
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Patrick Gilbert
Thomas
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Stephan Samuel
Max
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Heinz G. Diesing
Jürgen Kirsch
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Palace
Eva Krutina
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Hans Peter Hallwachs
Rainer Schiff
Known for
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Jim Rakete
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Also in
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Bernard Bloch
Journalist
Known for
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Ken Loach Director · Trevor Griffiths Writer Christian Kunert Composer
First release September 2, 1986 · Produced in Germany, United Kingdom, France · Languages English, French, German
Production
Kestrel Films
Production
Channel Four Films
Production
Clasart Film & Fernsehproduktion
Production
MK2 Productions
Production
Germany · United Kingdom · France
Produced in
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · French · German
Release dates
Italy · September 2, 1986
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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