1 of 3 | August Diehl, Hanns Zischler, Pawel Pawlikowski and Sandra Hüller, from left to right, attend the Cannes Film Festival photocall for “Fatherland” in May. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI | License Photo
Fatherland has been announced to open the 32nd annual Sarajevo Film Festival.
The Cold War drama from Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski will screen Aug. 14, with the festival to run through Aug. 21 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Fatherland, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, stars Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller as real-life Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, respectively.
The film follows the pair as they embark on “a challenging and emotional road trip” across Germany at the height of the Cold War, from U.S. dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar.
“Returning home after 16 years of exile in the U.S., Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family,” an official description reads.
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The movie concludes Pawlikowski’s Cold War trilogy of films following Ida (2013) and Cold War (2018).
“This is a festival that I feel very close to,” Pawlikowski said in a statement.
“My films, especially the last three which are steeped in history, have a very good home there. I’m very happy to be back and very thrilled that it’s the opening film of the festival,” he added.
