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A Balasaur Score of 80 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 96%, Metacritic 90/100. Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 89% of the 6,764 2020s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 22m.
Synopsis
In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic90/100
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
16 audience votes
Key crew
- Paweł PawlikowskiDirector
- Paweł PawlikowskiScreenplay
- Hendrik HandloegtenScreenplay
- Marcin MaseckiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Sandra HüllerErika Mann
- Hanns ZischlerThomas Mann
- August DiehlKlaus Mann
- Anna MadeleyBetty Knox
- Devid StriesowJohannes R. Becher
- David MenkinArthur Quint
- Joachim MeyerhoffGustaf Gründgens
- Enno TrebsWieland Wagner
- Theo TrebsWolfgang Wagner
- Waldemar KobusMayor of Frankfurt
- Daniel WagnerSergei Ivanovich Tulpanov
- Fritzi HaberlandtWaitress
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Themes
based on novel or bookgermanyroad tripblack and whitewriterdocudramaeast germanyjourneywest germanyfather daughter relationshipcold war eraoccupied germany