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Fatherland (released as Singing the Blues in Red in the US) is a 1986 film about a German singer-songwriter, directed by Ken Loach and starring Gerulf Pannach [ de], Fabienne Babe [ fr], Cristine Rose and Sigfrit Steiner . Plot. Cast. Production. Financing. The film was partly financed by the German television broadcaster ZDF. Release.
Synopsis. 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.
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Sep 10, 2012 · An intriguing departure for Loach, scripted by Trevor Griffiths, this concerns the voluntary exile of an East German Liedermacher (a kind of radical singer/songwriter) to West Berlin, where his ...
1986. ★★★½. Fatherland is something of a forgotten, overlooked film in Ken Loach's body of work. Made in the 1980s, a decade which saw Loach at his least prolific and most openly disillusioned with the feature film making process, this marked an intriguing change of pace for the director; working from a script by acclaimed left-wing ...
- Ken Loach
Ken Loach. Director. Trevor Griffiths. Writer. 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.
Brief Synopsis. A writer of protest songs is expelled from East Germany to West Germany. Cast & Crew. Read More. Gerulf Pannach. Klaus Drittemann. Fabienne Babe. Emma Debaen. Sigfrit Steiner. James Dryden. Cristine Rose. Lucy Bernstein. Robert Dietl. East German Lawyer. Heike Schrotter. Marita. Film Details. Also Known As. Singing the Blues in Red.
FATHERLAND. Please note: the film is German and English language, but does not have English subtitles. U.K., Germany, 1986. Directed by Ken Loach. Written by Trevor Griffiths. With Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Cristine Rose. In English and German (with no English subtitles). Approx. 110 mins. 35mm.
