UNITED KINGDOM · 1986
Fatherland
British Kitchen Sink
cold war division
political defection
artistic exploitation
east west relations
cultural commodification
Synopsis
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
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