Following its world premiere in Competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, where Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski won Best Director for the second time after 2018‘s Cold War, Ojczyzna (Fatherland) is another monochrome historical snapshot focusing on a couple swept up by the tides of history.
Instead of lovers, it centers on a father, German Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann (“Death in Venice”, “Doctor Faustus”) and his daughter, Erika.
