Fatherland 38 years old

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...

Credits

Fatherland Cast

Name Character
Fabienne Babe She was 23, now 61 years old as Emma de Baen
Sigfrit Steiner He was 79, 81 years old when he died as Dritteman/James Dryden
Hans Peter Hallwachs He was 48, now 86 years old as Rainer Schiff
Cristine Rose She was 35, now 73 years old as Lucy Bernstein
Heike Schroetter She was 30, now 68 years old as Marita
Bernard Bloch He was 36, 15 years old when he died as Journalist
Gerulf Pannach He was 38, 49 years old when he died as Klaus Dittemann

Fatherland Crew

Name Department
Ken Loach as Director. He was 50 (now 88) years old Directing
Trevor Griffiths as Writer. He was 51 (now 89) years old Writing
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Fatherland (38 years)

  • Release day: Tuesday, September 02, 1986
  • Runtime: 111 minutes