Fatherland
Persona Non Grata in his own biography, protest singer Klaus Drittemann should depart East Berlin, his spouse and kid and emigrate to West Berlin, in which the agents of the American record business are eagerly awaiting him. They intend to harness his own defection from communism both ideologically and financially. However, Klaus, as ill-at-ease from the West because he had been at the East, is unwilling to be utilized as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed into his way ), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his fathera 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 more than just a couple of years. The young woman is concerted but may hide things …
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Loach
Actors: Cristine Rose, Fabienne Babe, Gerulf Pannach, Heike Schroetter, Patrick Gilbert, Sigfrit Steiner, Stephan Samuel
Country: France, UK, West Germany
