Fatherland (1994 film)
| Fatherland | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Christopher Menaul |
| Produced by |
Gideon Amir Ilene Kahn Frederick Muller Leo Zisman |
| Written by |
Novel Robert Harris Screenplay Stanley Weiser Ron Hutchinson |
| Starring |
Rutger Hauer |
| Music by | Gary Chang |
| Cinematography | Peter Sova |
| Edited by | Tariq Anwar |
| Distributed by | HBO Films |
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Release date
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26 November 1994 (United States) 27 January 1995 (Germany) February 1995 (Sweden) |
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Running time
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106 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £4.1 million |
Rutger Hauer
Miranda Richardson
Peter Vaughan
Jean Marsh
Fatherland is a 1994 TV film of the book of the same name by Robert Harris made by HBO, starring Rutger Hauer as March and Miranda Richardson as McGuire.
In the prologue, the failure of the D-Day invasion causes the United States to withdraw from the war in Europe and Dwight D. Eisenhower to retire in disgrace. The US continues the Pacific War against Japan and wins by using atomic bombs. In Europe, Germany invades the United Kingdom, resulting in King George VI and the rest of the Royal family fleeing to Canada in exile with Edward VIII regaining the throne while Wallis Simpson becomes queen. Winston Churchill also goes into exile in Canada and lives there until his death in 1953. Germany corrals the rest of Europe into the Greater German Reich, known as "Germania" for short. German society is largely clean and orderly - at least on the surface - with the SS reorganized into a peacetime police force.
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