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Movie Review: In ‘Fatherland,’ Paweł Pawlikowski’s austere portrait of a fractured Germany

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In 1949, Nobel laureate Thomas Mann returned to Germany after years in exile to accept dual Goethe Prizes. Frankfurt, in West Germany, was Goethe’s birthplace 200 years earlier. Weimar, in communist East Germany, was where he lived and died.

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    Movie Review: In ‘Fatherland,’ Paweł Pawlikowski’s austere portrait of a fractured Germany (opens WTOP Washington DC)

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    In 1949, Nobel laureate Thomas Mann returned to Germany after years in exile to accept dual Goethe Prizes. Frankfurt, in West Germany, was Goethe’s birthplace 200 years earlier. Weimar, in communist East Germany, was where he lived and died.

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    In 1949, Nobel laureate Thomas Mann returned to Germany after years in exile to accept dual Goethe Prizes.

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