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Fatherland(Movie, 1986)

1h 51min | Genre: Drama
FatherlandRating: 3.1/5 (with 88 votes)
Fatherland (released as Singing the Blues in Red in the US) is a 1986 film about a German singer-songwriter, directed by Ken Loach and starring Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Cristine Rose and Sigfrit Steiner. ()
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About Fatherland

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...

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Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, France, United Kingdom (UK)
Original language: German (DE)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)
Translated into 8 languages: Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/02/1986
Director: Ken Loach
Screenwriter: Trevor Griffiths
Director of Photography: Chris Menges
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Vaterland"
"Πατρίδα"
"Patria"
"Singing the Blues in Red"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:27988, Added: 02/28/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024