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Fatherland is an upcoming film set in 1949, following German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika on a road trip across postwar Germany, traveling from US-occupied Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. It is scheduled for release on June 19, 2026.
Fatherland is scheduled for release on June 19, 2026.
The film follows German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika on a 1949 road trip across postwar Germany, traveling from US-occupied Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
The film is based on real historical figures — the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika Mann — and is set during an actual period of German postwar division in 1949.
Fatherland is set for release on June 19, 2026. The film is set in 1949 and follows the real-life German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika as they travel by road across a Germany still fractured in the aftermath of World War II. Their journey takes them from Frankfurt, then under American occupation, eastward to Weimar, which fell within the Soviet zone of control. The film uses this road trip as a framework for exploring a divided nation at a pivotal moment in European history.