{"id":699581,"date":"2026-05-28T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699581\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:18:09","slug":"fatherland-trailer-sandra-huller-stars-in-thomas-mann-road-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699581\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fatherland’ Trailer: Sandra H\u00fcller Stars in Thomas Mann Road Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pawel Pawlikowski<\/a>\u2018s elegantly chiseled, black-and-white post-war road movie \u201cFatherland<\/a>\u201d was widely tipped during this year\u2019s just-wrapped Cannes Film<\/a> Festival to win the Palme d\u2019Or. While it only walked away with Best Director for Pawel Pawlikowski (who shared it with Los Javis for their \u201cThe Black Ball,\u201d and also won the same prize in 2018 for \u201cCold War\u201d), \u201cFatherland\u201d announced itself as a major early Oscar contender<\/a> out of the Cannes competition. <\/p>\n

The film stars Sandra H\u00fcller as actress\/writer Erika Mann and Hanns Zischler as her father, the author Thomas Mann, who travel from U.S.-controlled Frankfurt to Soviet-dominated Weimar, Germany, in 1949 after living in California in exile for more than a decade. A black Buick takes the father and daughter through a postwar land in ruins, where Thomas Mann is set to receive the Goethe prize for his literary contributions. Meanwhile, their family is already deeply fractured, a wound stemming from Erika\u2019s relationship with her twin brother, Klaus Mann (August Diehl).<\/p>\n

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As Pawlikowski told IndieWire<\/a> about casting H\u00fcller, \u201cYou watch the transformation of her face, and it really, really happens. She doesn\u2019t seem to be acting. She has this fake smile, and then in her eyes, what happens there? There was one take where things come to the surface, brilliantly, in a way that\u2019s not scripted and not acted, it mysteriously unfolds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, H\u00fcller is a potential Best Actress contender for \u201cFatherland,\u201d along with her performance in Markus Schleinzer\u2019s \u201cRose\u201d (also coming from Mubi), which won her best actress at the Berlinale. Plus, the \u201cAnatomy of a Fall\u201d Oscar nominee is in the Best Supporting Actress race for \u201cProject Hail Mary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per my IndieWire review<\/a>, \u201cthe aching black-and-white, the Academy aspect ratio, the streak of fatalism running between dueling identities,\u201d it\u2019s all there for Pawlikowski fans and of his films like \u201cCold War\u201d and \u201cIda.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s another austere, rigorously crafted odyssey through European postwar regret\u201d \u2014 but at the center of the movie is a father-daughter story that will move audiences. <\/p>\n

Mubi releases \u201cFatherland\u201d in the United States theatrically this fall. Check out the film\u2019s first trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pawel Pawlikowski\u2018s elegantly chiseled, black-and-white post-war road movie \u201cFatherland\u201d was widely tipped during this year\u2019s just-wrapped Cannes Film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,254874,1554,337,254875,194026,1556],"class_list":["post-699581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fatherland","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-pawel-pawlikowski","tag-sandra-huller","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}