Fatherland (1986 film)

{{Infobox Film

For the alternative history film, see Fatherland (1994 film).

| name = Fatherland | director = Ken Loach | screenplay = Trevor Griffiths | producer = Raymond Day | starring = Gerulf Pannach | cinematography = Chris Menges | editing = Jonathan Morris | music = Christian Kunert
Gerulf Pannach | studio = Kestrel II
MK2 Productions | distributor = Film Four International | runtime = 110 minutes | countries = United Kingdom
Germany | languages = English
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, Fabienne Babe, Cristine Rose and Sigfrit Steiner.

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.

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.


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