1949

original title:

1949/Vaterland

directed by:

cinematography:

Lukasz Zal

editing:

Piotr Wojcik

set design:

Katarzyna Sobasska, Marcel Slawinski

costume design:

Ola Staszko

music:

Marcin Marsecki

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.