| Fatherland | |
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| Directed by | Ken Loach |
| Screenplay by | Trevor Griffiths |
| Produced by | Raymond Day |
| Starring | Gerulf Pannach |
| Cinematography | Chris Menges |
| Edited by | Jonathan Morris |
| Music by | Christian Kunert Gerulf Pannach |
Production companies | Kestrel II MK2 Productions |
| Distributed by | Film Four International |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom West Germany |
| Languages | English German |
| Budget | £884,000 |
Fatherland (released asSinging the Blues in Red in the US) is a 1986 film about a German singer-songwriter, directed byKen Loach and starringGerulf Pannach [de],Fabienne Babe [fr],Cristine Rose andSigfrit Steiner.
The film was partly financed by the German television broadcasterZDF.
The film is one of Loach's least-popular films, being referred to as "a heavy-handed and absurd political drama" inMIT's newspaperThe Tech[1] and Loach said in a 2016Guardian interview that he "made a mess" of the film.[2] 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.
When the film was broadcast, they cut the scene in which Gerulf Pannach attacks a Christian Democrat politician for his fascist past. Loach said in an interview, "It was ironic that they should cut the only decent scene in the film."[3]
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