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 one of the standout titles at this year’s festival, garnering much critical acclaim and being considered a strong contender for awards season.
“Fatherland,” which won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival along with Spanish director Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrosi’s “La Bola Negra,” will be released in U.S. theaters as a movie this fall. Mubi is also distributing Fatherland in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and India.
Like Pawlikowski’s two previous films, Aida and Cold War, which delved into World War II and its aftermath, Fatherland, shot in black and white, revolves around the relationship between Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann, played by Hans Zischler (Munich), and his daughter Erica (Hüller), an actress, writer, and rally driver. Set in the summer of 1949 at the height of the Cold War, a father and daughter embark on a road trip in a black Buick across ruined Germany from American-controlled Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
“Mr. Mann, whose side are you on? Stalin or Mickey Mouse?” Mann says to himself, meditating as he sits in Erica’s Buick behind the wheel, in a revelatory car monologue that opens the film’s trailer.
“The two actors are perfect, as Hüller’s Erica is acerbic but polite, suppressing the old man’s buried narcissism until she can no longer bear it, at which point she lets loose,” Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote in a review. A hint of Erica’s anger can be seen at the end of the trailer.
The film reunited Pawlikowski with his long-time filmmaking team, including Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lukasz Zal, costume designer Aleksandra Staszko, editor Piotr Wojcik, production designers Katarzyna Sobanska and Marcel Sławinski, and composer Marcin Marcecki.
With a running time of 82 minutes, Fatherland was the shortest feature film in that year’s Cannes competition lineup.
Pawlikowski’s Aida won numerous awards, including the 2015 International Oscar Award. Pawlikowski won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 for Cold War and has since gone on to win many other accolades, including three Oscar nominations.
“Fatherland” is produced by Mario Giannini and Lorenzo Mieri for Media One-owned Our Films, Ewa Pushczynska for Extreme Emotions, Jeanne Tremsal and Edward Berger for Nine Hours, Dimitri Rassam for Chapter 2, and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Circle One. The film is a co-production between Mubi, Our Films, Extreme Emotions (Poland), Nine Our Films (Germany) and Chapter 2 (France), with Arte and Pathé also participating, in collaboration with Circle One (Italy) and Apocalypso Pictures.
Check out the Fatherland poster below and watch the trailer above.
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