Yes. More sad than 88% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Fatherland violent?

Barely. Less violent than 76% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Does Fatherland end with hope?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Fatherland easy watching?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Fatherland

Name: Fatherland
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: 1986
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Cristine Rose, Sigfrit Steiner, Heike Schroetter

Directed by Ken Loach

Produced by Kestrel Films, Channel Four Films

1986111 min6.3 / 10

A melancholic drama about artistic integrity and displacement, following a protest singer caught between ideological systems and searching for paternal connection across a divided Europe.

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to the West, where representatives of an American record company are eagerly awaiting him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as in the East, is reluctant to be an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he departs for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who left East Berlin when Klaus was young. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who claims to have knowledge of where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade.

Clusters

Slow Character Dramas About Loneliness Journalism and Reporters Musicians And Performers Cold War Eastern Europe

Genres

Drama Music

Keywords

Journalist Berlin Wall Singer East Germany

Questions people ask

Is Fatherland sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.
Is Fatherland violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.
Is Fatherland scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.
Does Fatherland end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Is Fatherland easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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