Fatherland (1994)

Directed by

Christopher Menaul

Genre

drama film, science fiction film, crime film, alternate history film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 141 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In an alternate 1960s where the Nazis won World War II, a detective investigates the murder of a high-ranking party official. The case threatens to expose a terrible secret the regime wants hidden.

tensesuspensefuldarkbleakslow-burnominouscerebralnoir-ish

What happens

Fatherland is a 1994 American alternate history mystery-thriller film directed by Christopher Menaul, written by Stanley Weiser and Ron Hutchinson, and starring Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jean Marsh and Michael Kitchen. Based on the 1992 novel by Robert Harris, the film is set in an alternate 1960s Germany still under Nazi control, and concerns a murder investigation of Party officials. The film premiered on HBO on November 26, 1994. It received mixed reviews, but was a commercial success. Miranda Richardson won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, while the film was also nominated for Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film and Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film (for Hauer). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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