‘Fatherland’ follows Thomas Mann and his daughter through postwar Germany

The A.V. Club reviews Paweł Pawlikowski’s black-and-white drama as a mournful story of exile and loss. Sandra Hüller plays Erika, who accompanies her father, author Thomas Mann, back to Germany in 1949 to accept Goethe Prizes in both the West and East. Rotten Tomatoes shared a clip on October 22 and said the film was due in US theaters the next day.