Mubi has released the official trailer and artwork for Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland” following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The historical drama was among the festival’s standout titles this year, eliciting plenty of critical praise and being tipped as an awards season contender.
“Fatherland,” which in Cannes won the best director award in a tie with Spanish helmers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for their “La Bola Negra,” will be released by Mubi in U.S. theaters this fall. Mubi is also distributing “Fatherland” in the U.K., Ireland, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and India.
Shot in black-and-white — just like Pawlikowski’s preceding two works, “Ida” and “Cold War,” which also delve into the World War II years and their aftermath — “Fatherland” revolves around the rapport between Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann, played by Hanns Zischler (“Munich”), and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is an actress, writer and rally driver. Set in the summer of 1949 at the height of the Cold War, the father and daughter embark on a road trip in a black Buick traveling from the U.S.-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar across a Germany in ruins.
