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 [de], Fabienne Babe [fr], Cristine Rose and Sigfrit Steiner.
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Directed by | Ken Loach |
Screenplay by | Trevor Griffiths |
Produced by | Raymond Day |
Starring | Gerulf Pannach |
Cinematography | Chris Menges |
Edited by | Jonathan Morris |
Music by | Christian Kunert Gerulf Pannach |
Production companies | Kestrel II MK2 Productions |
Distributed by | Film Four International |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom Germany |
Languages | English German |
Budget | £884,000 |
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.
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