Fatherland
Watershed · BS1
3 November 2026, 4 November 2026, 5 November 2026 + 2 more dates
£6.00 - £12.00
Theatre
In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins. Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) - actress, writer and rally driver. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family. With Fatherland, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring - in his elliptic, distilled style - the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.