movie poster for FATHERLAND (KEN LOACH)

Flicks ID

4958

Cert

15

Running time

105 mins

Country

Britain

Language

EnglishFrenchGerman

Format

DVD

FATHERLAND (KEN LOACH) (1986)

KEN LOACH

DramaThrillerArt HousePolitics

Cast

Plot

A dissident song-writer leaves East Berlin, only to find that the West is a mass of smug hypocrisies about freedom and democracy. He comes to the bleak landscape of Thatcher's Britain to find his exiled father, but his father's past is not what it seems! A thoughtful political thriller.