Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is set to open the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival and the Polish helmer is set to personally welcome audiences at the gala screening on August 14.
The film, which rounds up Pawlikowski’s Cold War trilogy, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year where it won the Best Director award.
Fatherland centers on the relationship between Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller), an actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging emotional road trip in a black Buick
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