Fatherland (1986)
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who - just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...
Director: Ken Loach
 |
Gerulf Pannach as Klaus Dittemann |
 |
Fabienne Babe as Emma de Baen |
 |
Cristine Rose as Lucy Bernstein |
 |
Sigfrit Steiner as Dritteman/James Dryden |
 |
Heike Schroetter as Marita |
|
Patrick Gilbert as Thomas |
|
Stephan Samuel as Max |
|
Heinz G. Diesing as Jürgen Kirsch |
|
Eva Krutina as Rosa |
 |
Hans Peter Hallwachs as Rainer Schiff |
|
Jim Rakete as Braun |
 |
Bernard Bloch as Journalist |
 |
Robert Dietl as East German Lawyer |
|
Marlowe Shute as American Official |
|
Winfried Tromp as Herr Hennig |
| Directing | Ken Loach | Director |
| Writing | Trevor Griffiths | Writer |
| Camera | Chris Menges | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Jonathan Morris | Editor |
| Art | Martin Johnson | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Antje Petersen | Costume Design |
| Production | Raymond Day | Producer |
| Production | Irving Teitelbaum | Executive Producer |
| Production | Fritz Buttenstedt | Co-Producer |
| Production | Marin Karmitz | Co-Producer |
| Production | Herbert C. Kloiber | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Christian Kunert | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Gerulf Pannach | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Maggie Parsons | Unit Production Manager |
| Production | Maggie Parsons | Location Manager |
