Following Ida and Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski again sets his story in a Europe given over to post-war chaos and moral ambiguity. His new film, which shared the Best Director award at Cannes, explores identity, guilt, family and love. In 1949 the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann returns to Germany for the first time since the war, accompanied by his daughter Erika, an actress, writer and rally driver. His homeland lies in ruins and divided. Father and daughter set off from US-controlled Frankfurt towards Soviet-controlled Weimar, and their journey in a black Buick through the rubble of the land of their ancestors is both arduous and emotional. Pawlikowski co-wrote the screenplay with Hendrik Handloegten, creator of the series Babylon Berlin.
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