"Actor: Gerulf Pannach"

• Fatherland | DVD | (18/03/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dark secrets are revealed and sinister alliances uncovered in acclaimed director Ken Loach’s complex tale of betrayal and life on either side of the Berlin Wall. East Berlin-based protest singer Klaus Ditteman is forced to abandon his wife and child and relocate to West Berlin where representatives from an American record label approach him to try to exploit his music for financial and political gain. Never one to comply with authority, Klaus leaves the contract unsigned and with the help of Emma, a French journalist, he leaves for England to search for his father. Featuring an original soundtrack and the only screen appearance by highly influential German singer-songwriter and lyricist, Gerulf Pannach, Fatherland is an accomplished depiction of 80s Berlin that lives up to Loach’s reputation as a master of social politics.

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  Banned from playing his music in East Berlin Klaus Dittemann is forced to move to West Berlin or face a jail sentence. His music is a platform for his political beliefs where he sings of the injustice prejudice lack of freedom and corruption of the government within East Berlin. Leaving his wife and child behind he finds that even though the location has changed the affairs of the state are just the same and just as corrupt. Unwilling to play the political games of the West Klaus begins a journey that will change his life forever. Befriended by a journalist who has news of his missing father Klaus leaves for England to search for him. Klaus is unprepared for what he is about to uncover about his father's history. A past that reveals a hidden life and hidden memories a past that tells of an awful involvement wit the Nazi's in wartime Germany.