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. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who - just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...
Fatherland has generally received mixed reviews.
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Fatherland was released in 1986 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 43 reviews, giving Fatherland (1986) an average rating of 58%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 70%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Fatherland than critics were.
With a score of 58%, Fatherland is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1986, which stands at 58%.
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