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Fatherland

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In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. From TMDB

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  • klu9 @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 17, 2026

    TIL the first alternate history where the Axis Powers win WWII was written *before* WWII. Author Len Deighton has passed away, and [his obituary on the BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cervgrvekxzo) mentioned his novel [_SS-GB_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-GB) (1977) (I read it in the 80s, and saw [the miniseries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-GB_(TV_series)) maybe 8~9 years ago) predated fellow alternate history _Fatherland_ (by Robert Harris, 1992) by multiple years. I…

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  • Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2026

    Some films I saw at the Telluride Film Festival that I’d recommend checking out, a thread: 1.) Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski, dir.)

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  • jamelle @jamellebouie.netBluesky · Jul 9, 2023

    latest episode of my podcast on 1990s dad thrillers is on the adaptation of FATHERLAND. we talked a lot about the basic failures and limits of this particular genre of alt-history

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  • Blue Doggy @bluedoggy.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    So, I'm supposed have kids for the Fatherland? Didn't we see that movie in WW2 Germany? Anyway, bringing a kid into corrupt Trumplandia is tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment.

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  • Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    While I’m in Scotland at this writing residency, my husband is out seeing friend, and films, like this one he caught in Berlin yesterday, Fatherland, which he recommends: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    Thomas Mann (with scenes from the Paweł Pawlikowski film "Fatherland", inspired by an Erika and Thomas Mann road trip across Germany during the Cold War)

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  • AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2026

    TODAY I AM AT @iffboston.bsky.social FALL FOCUS AT @brattletheatre.bsky.social TO SEE FOUR FILMS AS PART OF MY COVERAGE! I AM SEEING ALL OF A SUDDEN, LOOK BACK, FATHERLAND, AND CLUB KID! Love film festival season, love the folks at IFFBoston, love The Brattle, one of the best cinemas Ive enjoyed.

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    Pawel Pawlikowski (with scenes from his film "Fatherland") - BOTD

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Reviews are in from the Cannes premiere of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler. www.metacritic.com/movie/father...

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  • JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2026

    In competition at #Cannes, Pawel Pawlikowski’s FATHERLAND, reviewed here by Peter Bradshaw. One for Thomas Mann fans. #FilmSky #BookSky 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

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  • Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    Michelle Yeoh deserved a better movie. Her Most Imperial Majesty, Emperor Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius, Mother of the Fatherland, Overlord of Vulcan, Dominus of Qo'noS, Regina Andor deserved a better villain. #Section31 #StarTrek

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  • German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    Film review: 'Fatherland'. Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Sandra Hüller www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma... via @theguardian.com @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2026

    The Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival is awarded to three filmmakers: - Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi for ‘LA BOLA NEGRA’ - Paweł Pawlikowski for ‘FATHERLAND’ #Cannes #LaBolaNegra #Fatherland

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  • Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    Ich habe vorher den Film #Vaterland #Fatherland mit Sandra Hüller gesehen, der in #Cannes26 im Wettbewerb lief und vielleicht/vermutlich heute Abend irgendeine Palme gewinnt. Gewinnen sollte. Wie hat mir das gut getan, so einen ernsten Film zu sehen - es war 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxDL...

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  • Screamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    My introduction via book, film, music and TV. Book: Fatherland by Robert Harris Film: The Bourne Identity Album: Queen Greatest Hits TV show: Edge of Darkness (original BBC series)

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  • Colin J Donnelly @cjdonnelly72.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    Spent my lunchtime today booking cinema tickets… Modesty Blaise, Billy Liar & 3 London Film Festival Screenings in October I Love Boosters Fatherland The Debut Still got my eye on one or two other LFF screenings. #FilmSky #LFF2026

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  • Gregory Ellwood @gregoryellwood.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2026

    Did a Best Picture nominee premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival? One or two likely did, but even with love for Fatherland, The Black Ball, and Fjord's Palme d'Or, everyone should temper expectations. Just a bit. A rundown on how the 2027 Oscars began in Cannes theplaylist.net/oscars-kick-...

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  • Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2026

    Sight and Sound editors Katie McCabe, Isabel Stevens and Thomas Flew have joined Devika Girish and guests on the Film Comment podcast this #Cannes2026 to discuss the latest premieres – from Fatherland to Fjord to La bola negra Head to the new Film Comment site now to listen

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  • Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Colm Tóibín is thanked prominently in the credits for the new Pawlikowski movie Fatherland I know for a fact he's read my book but I don't think the two things are related

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  • David Jenkins @daveyjenkins.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    My review of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland #Cannes lwlies.com/cannes-film-...

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    First look at Paweł Pawlikowski’s new film ‘FATHERLAND’, starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, premiering in competition at Cannes today. #Fatherland #Cannes

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  • Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2025

    Yeah - even comparing the book and TV-movie versions of Fatherland, the assumption is still that revelation will be a big deal.

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  • Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁭󠁸󠁣󠁨󠁰󠁿 @kevincarson1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2025

    This is the person responsible for the ending of the dumbed-down movie adaptation of Fatherland

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  • Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2026

    Also in the issue: The best of Venice film festival The Faust Bible rediscovered Paweł Pawlikowski on the style and sensibility of Fatherland Boots Riley on smuggling revolutionary dialectics into Hollywood with I Love Boosters An archive conversation between Billy Wilder and Saul Bass

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  • Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    All right: if you would like my London Film Festival recs do not miss Filipiñana or La Bola Negra or Fatherland Also must sees: Josephine, Minotaur, Godzilla Minus Zero, Wild Horse Nine, Coward, A Good Little Soldier, It Will Happen Tonight, Rose

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  • Philip Bagnall @cynicalfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    It’ll be tricky to top FATHERLAND as the best film of Cannes 2026. Weeping by the end. Sandra Hüller is one of the best actresses of her generation. My review:

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  • Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    Like everybody, I think FATHERLAND is the clear best film so far at this year's Cannes.

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  • David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.comBluesky · Jan 31, 2025

    I have never been able to find a clip of it, but there is a moment in the movie FATHERLAND, where the Nazis won the war, where an old German actress is talking and then suddenly shifts into full Nazi. It was absolutely chilling...

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  • TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    Poland has picked Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland” as its candidate for best international feature film at next year’s Academy Awards, giving the Oscar-winning director another shot at the prize.

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  • Little White Lies @lwlies.comBluesky · May 17, 2026

    6. An early Palme contender, Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland is another immaculately wrought miniature about people experiencing geopolitical division first-hand. Review by @daveyjenkins.bsky.social. lwlies.com/cannes-film-...

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  • Lars Ginzel @tonmanufaktur.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Fatherland by Paweł Pawlikowski just premiered in Cannes. So the first reviews are coming in. As it’s supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer I’m very happy to see that the film was well received. Very proud of our whole team‘s work on this one!

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  • Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁭󠁸󠁣󠁨󠁰󠁿 @kevincarson1.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2025

    One of the things I hate most is when an excellent, well thought out book is made into a movie that's deliberately dumbed down for American sensibilities. That's especially true of the Hallmark Movie version of Animal Farm, and the movie adaptation of Harris's Fatherland. 1/?

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  • Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    Already booked in for Billy Liar and Fatherland at the QFT in the coming weeks but also just booked tickets for this… queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/The...

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  • Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Also in the issue: The best of Venice film festival Paweł Pawlikowski on the style and sensibility of Fatherland Boots Riley on smuggling revolutionary dialectics into Hollywood with I Love Boosters The Faust Bible rediscovered An archive conversation between Billy Wilder and Saul Bass

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  • Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    It’s also where I found Fatherland, the Rutger Hauer movie set in the alternate universe where Germany won the European theatre, America won the Pacific, and Hitler is coming to visit America to have hangs with Joe Kennedy for Hitler’s 75th birthday.

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  • Marsha🇨🇦 @empressmarsha.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    Watching Oilers and was going to watch the new Keira Knightly spy series but see I can rent Conclave. Let's go! I do love a good Ralph Fiennes movie. And it's based on Robert Harris book - he writes some damn good books! Fatherland is one of my faves!

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  • Alistair Wilson (Big Al Wilson) @alistairwilson.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    For me Fatherland was Robert Harris' best novel - but unable to translate to the big screen (dreadful TV movie) so its intriguing to see that Conclave ( a less satisfying read) has the opportunity for so much more success in the cinema. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

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  • Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    What I love about FATHERLAND is that if you just see it it is a really good film. It doesn't beat you over the head with anything. At the same time if you know about the little bits in the film, Mephisto, Goethe, Faust, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, the film becomes truly great

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  • Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    I'm the wrong guy to ask about this. I am eagerly anticipating Fatherland, the upcoming movie starring Sandra Huller about Thomas Mann and his return to Germany after the war (somewhat related is that Mann created a 'Weimar on the Pacific' in... Hollywood)

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  • Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    Was on line at the FATHERLAND critics screening and two of the people around me were wondering why film studios were just going to switch all AI since it was cheaper and better. They were going on about these AI slop 3D cinema experience videos as if they were real No wonder film writing is dead

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  • Nagihan Haliloğlu @nhaliloglu.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    With the AfD win, Pawlikowski's #Fatherland takes on new urgency, and we are all Erika Mann shouting into the void. Yes, I used the film to talk about my own relationship with Germany www.dailysabah.com/arts/reviews...

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  • Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    For your consideration... my ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of FATHERLAND (2026) on @letterboxd.social #filmsky #nziff boxd.it/fH7kUp

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  • Moondoggie (Rick) @moondogrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    There's a new movie about Thomas Mann I'm looking forward to seeing. It's called Fatherland and focuses on a trip Mann took with his daughter through postwar Germany, the U.S. occupied west and the Soviet-controlled east. It played at Cannes, but won't open here until October.

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  • Jock Rutherford 🌻🇨🇦 @jockr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return | Cannes film festival | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/14/fatherland-review-sandra-huller-thomas-mann-pawel-pawlikowski-cannes-film-festivali

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  • Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    The Beatles poster in the movie adaptation of Fatherland always annoyed me.

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  • Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    Looking forward to the new Paweł Pawlikowski film, 'Fatherland', about Thomas Mann and his daughter's journey through postwar Germany

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  • GarthArizona @gartharizona.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2025

    Ppl who 👀 the movie will say, "Not dark and brutal enough?!?" Yeah, I said what I said. I didn't stutter. The novel is about leading Lambs off to the slaughter, and literally watching them walk themselves to death for the Fatherland & glory. There are no winners here. The movie held back. 🤷‍♂️

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  • Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Fatherland was an amazing book, but the movie adaptation wasn't great (and Harris didn't like it either)

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  • kirstielulu.bsky.social @kirstielulu.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2025

    I think some of the administration may be trying to recreate the Rutger Hauer film Fatherland in real life? Not quite homeland, but essentially the same thing www.imdb.com/title/tt0109...

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  • Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁭󠁸󠁣󠁨󠁰󠁿 @kevincarson1.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2025

    For something like (say) Poul Anderson's "The House of Sorrows" to be made into an episode, you'd have to have a historically literate audience. The movie version of Fatherland is what you get when you're catering to the exact opposite.

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  • Elaine L. Orr @elaineorr55.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2025

    "I’ve always written about politics and power. It greatly interests me what it does to people, the kind of people who seek it and so on." Robert Harris, whose books include Conclave (on which the movie is based) and Fatherland. My favorite of his books is Pompeii.

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  • Joanna Warrens she/her @joannawarrens.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    Is it good? I haven’t seen the movie. Fatherland is one of the best books I’ve ever read.

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  • Dee Severe 🐶🎬🏈🎶🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @deesevere.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2024

    Very true. But if he hadn't done it the nazis could have won. There is actually a movie about that, Fatherland, where Hitler wins and hides the Holocaust...

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  • Kinniska @kinniska.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2026

    Just caught a showing of “Fatherland” www.imdb.com/title/tt3730... courtesy of the IFFBoston iffboston.org/series/fall-... at the Brattle @brattletheatre.bsky.social At once a period piece, a rumination on family dynamics, and a look back (and forward? ) — excellent film.

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  • Michael Avolio - PCX table 17 @michaelavolio.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    I can only assume Paweł Pawlikowski's new movie Fatherland, starring Hanns Zischler as Thomas Mann and Sandra Hüller as his daughter, is a prequel to the father/daughter "mann" Hüller film Toni Erdmann. Can't wait!

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  • Vince Keenan @vpkeenan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    A lot to enjoy in Anthony Lane's New Yorker profile of Paweł Pawlikowski (IDA, COLD WAR, the upcoming FATHERLAND), especially his description of the 69-year-old filmmaker as "middle-aged." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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  • Slant @slantmagazine.comBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    Paweł Pawlikowski’s FATHERLAND distinguishes itself from Ida and Cold War with a bitter humor. The film has its New York premiere today at #NYFF64. shorturl.at/ibXVf

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  • Maria Garcia @reelcriticnyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    The New York Film Festival's remaining tickets include Paweł Pawlikowski's "Fatherland," a heady treat for fans of Thomas Mann. About a tour the author & his daughter took after World War II. The best screenplay of this year's fest, by a masterful filmmaker, shot in B&W. @filmlinc.bsky.social

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  • Brian Perry @road2oscars.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    #Poland submitted #Fatherland for a 2027 #Oscars Best International Film nom! m.youtube.com/watch?v=-I2-...

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  • LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    Had no idea there was a movie adaptation of Fatherland

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