original title:
1949/Vaterland
directed by:
screenplay:
cinematography:
Lukasz Zal
editing:
Piotr Wojcik
set design:
Katarzyna Sobasska, Marcel Slawinski
costume design:
Ola Staszko
music:
Marcin Marsecki
producer:
production:
country:
UK/Italy/Poland/Germany/France
year:
2026
format:
colour
status:
Shooting (18/08/2025)
1949 follows renowned German novelist and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika. A journalist, actress and rally driver, Erika accompanies her father on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser, travelling from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Their journey through the ruins of Germany becomes a reflection on family bonds, identity and guilt, while capturing the moral uncertainty of a continent divided by new ideological frontiers.