★★★★★ – Guardian. Winner of the Best Director award at Cannes, Paweł Pawlikowski’s poetic new drama centres on the relationship between Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller).
"★★★★★ – an impossibly elegant, poised historical vignette" –Guardian
"★★★★ – requiem for lost ideals and lost loved ones" – Financial Times
"★★★★★ – another expansive, enriching work from a modern master" – Time Out
Winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes film festival, Paweł Pawlikowski’s (Ida, Cold War) poetic new drama centres on the relationship between Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Zischler) and his daughter Erika (the magnificent Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall) – actress, writer and rally driver.
In the summer of 1949, they embark on an emotional road trip in a black Buick across a Germany in ruins, from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. After sixteen years of exile, Thomas returns to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.
In German with English subtitles.
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