FATHERLAND - TWILIGHT TIME [1995]

Details

• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Fatherland (aka Singing the Blues in Red, 1986) is singular director Ken Loach's excursion into the world of European cinema, an ambitious film—written by Trevor Griffiths (Reds)—about an East German singer-songwriter (Gerulf Pannach) who exchanges the political repression of his home country for the new pressures of capitalism in the West. The search for his lost father and a skittish relationship with a journalist (Fabienne Babe) only add to the young artist's turmoil, beautifully captured by the camera of the brilliant Chris Menges.;
• Cast: Gerulf Pannach; Fabienne Babe; Sigfrit Steiner; Cristine Rose; Robert Dietl; Heike Schroetter; Patrick Gilbert; Stephan Samuel; Heinz G. Diesing; Eva Krutina; Marlowe Shute; Hans Peter Hallwachs; Jim Rakete; Winfried Tromp; Bernard Bloch; Thomas Öhlke; Ronald Simoneit; Ken Loach; Trevor Griffiths; Raymond Day; Chris Menges; Jonathan Morris; Béla Bartók; Benjamin Britten; Christian Kunert; Karl-Heinz Laabs; Martin Johnson
• Director: Ken Loach
• Runtime: 1:51
• Company: Channel Four Films, Kestrel II Ltd., Clasart Film und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, MK2 Productions, Red Jam, LLC, Twilight Time
• Media Format: Movie