Fatherland

Ken Loach collaborated with playwright Trevor Griffiths (Comedians) for this underseen political drama about an East German protest singer (played by Gerulf Pannach) who emigrates to the West when he falls foul of the authorities. He arrives to much interest from the media - and a potentially lucrative record contract - but wishes only to be able to perform his songs, and to find his father, another exile, who had left his home country during the 1953 East German uprising.

Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Trevor Griffiths
Actor: Gerulf Pannach
Actor: Christine Rose
Actor: Fabienne Babe
Actor: Robert Dietl
Actor: Sigfrit Steiner
Actor: Heike Schrötter
Producer: Raymond Day
Music: Béla Bartók
Music: Benjamin Britten
Music: Christian Kunert
Music: Gerulf Pannach
Cinematographer: Chris Menges