homeland

In his latest work, as in “Goes” and “The Cold War”, the director tackles themes of identity, guilt, family and love against the backdrop of the chaos and moral confusion of post-war Europe.

Homeland tells the story of the relationship between Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler), a Nobel Prize winner in literature, and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller), an actress and writer. The action takes place at the height of the Cold War. A father and daughter embark on a difficult, emotional journey in a black Buick through ruined Germany — from American-controlled Frankfurt to Soviet-influenced Weimar. For the first time since the war, Mann returns to his homeland, having previously made the difficult decision to emigrate to the United States.

Born in 1957 in Warsaw, film director and screenwriter. In 1971, he and his mother went to the UK. He attended a Catholic school. He studied philosophy and literature in London and Oxford. Since 1986, he has been on an internship at the BBC and started making documentaries. After a series of documentaries, among others about the war in Bosnia, he made his feature film The Last Exit (2000), which was awarded a BAFTA for a promising British filmmaker. In 2004, he filmed Summer of Love based on the book Helen Cross. His latest film Ida is the first Polish film to win an Oscar in the category of best foreign language film.

1992 Serbian Epics (TV, doc.)

1998 Correspondent/The Stringer

2000 Last Resort

2004 Summer of Love — My Summer of Love

2011 The Woman in the Fifth Quarter, La femme du Vème