News Summary

• Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest movie, Fatherland, follows the later life of Death in Venice author Thomas Mann.
• In the film Mann, now a Nobel laureate, returns to Germany, a place he fled post-war in 1949.
• The director bills it as a five-day road movie, with Mann journeying with his citizen-of-the-world daughter, Erika.
• Both sides of the new border want to claim both Goethe and Mann as their own.