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Fatherland
Action, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie, War
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy politically charged investigative thrillers that turn alternate history into a somber warning about suppressed atrocity and institutional complicity.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, cerebral
- Payoff
- revelation, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- historical memory, state secrecy, authoritarianism, moral courage, political deception
- Setting
- alternate 1960s, authoritarian European capital and surrounding countryside