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‘Fatherland’ and belonging to a country divided

‘Fatherland’ and belonging to a country divided
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At the opening of “Fatherland,” Klaus Mann (August Diehl) sits on a dirty floor, drugs strewn about, his lover still asleep as he talks to his sister, Ericka (Sandra Hüller) on the phone. It’s summer, 1949, and Ericka is trying to persuade Klaus to return to Germany, just for a little while – the...

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