Horizons / Fatherland / Poland, Germany, Italy, France 2026
What is it like to return to your native country but not to return home? It’s 1949. Thomas Mann, accompanied by his daughter Erika, arrives in Germany after an absence of sixteen long years in order to receive two awards, one in American-occupied Frankfurt, the other in Weimar, controlled by the Soviets. In the course of their journey, the pair receive news of a family tragedy. Disarming in its directorial style, this subtly layered piece can be interpreted in various ways: as a thought-provoking probe into post-war society, an intimate family drama, a road movie meandering between myth and reality, and as a surprisingly topical film about the role of the intellectual in a time of change. The leads are superbly played by Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, with exquisite lensing from cinematographer Łukasz Żal.
Vojtěch Kočárník
82 min / Color, DCP
Director Paweł Pawlikowski
/ Screenplay Henk Handloegten, Paweł Pawlikowski
/ Dir. of Photography Łukasz Żal
/ Sound Lars Ginzel
/ Editor Piotr Wójcik
/ Producer Edward Berger, Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli, Ewa Puszczyńska, Dimitri Rassam, Jeanne Tremsal
/ Production Our Films, Extreme Emotions, Nine Hours, Chapter 2, MUBI
/ Cast Hanns Zischler, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl
/ Sales The Match Factory
/ Distributor Zero Gravity
Paweł Pawlikowski. Selected filmography: Last Resort (2000), My Summer of Love (2004), The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème, 2011), Ida (2013), Cold War (Zimna wojna, 2018), Fatherland (2026).
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