Fatherland (1986 film)

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Fatherland
Fatherland (1986 film) poster.png
Directed by Ken Loach
Screenplay by Trevor Griffiths
Produced by Raymond Day
Starring Gerulf Pannach
Cinematography Chris Menges
Edited byJonathan Morris
Music byChristian Kunert
Gerulf Pannach
Production
companies
Kestrel II
MK2 Productions
Distributed by Film Four International
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Germany
LanguagesEnglish
German
Budget£884,000

Fatherland (released as Singing the Blues in Red in the US) is a 1986 film about a German singer-songwriter, directed by Ken Loach and starring Gerulf Pannach  [ de ], Fabienne Babe  [ fr ], Cristine Rose and Sigfrit Steiner.

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Production

The budget was £884,000. [1]

The film is one of Loach's least-popular films, being referred to as "a heavy-handed and absurd political drama" in MIT's newspaper The Tech [2] and Loach said in a 2016 Guardian interview that he "made a mess" of the film. [3] As the film was partly in German, its audience was limited in English-speaking countries. Between its cinematic release and the 2013 DVD release, the film was rare.

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References

  1. "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 22.
  2. "Kennth Loach's Looks and Smiles movingly informs British working class - the Tech".
  3. Hattenstone, Simon (15 October 2016). "Ken Loach: 'If you're not angry, what kind of person are you?'". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 23 November 2016.