{"id":1619,"date":"2026-05-14T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/14\/cannes-embraces-fatherland-with-reverent-ovation-for-sandra-huller-pawel-pawlikowski\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:36:00","slug":"cannes-embraces-fatherland-with-reverent-ovation-for-sandra-huller-pawel-pawlikowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/14\/cannes-embraces-fatherland-with-reverent-ovation-for-sandra-huller-pawel-pawlikowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Embraces \u2018Fatherland\u2019 With Reverent Ovation for Sandra H\u00fcller, Pawel Pawlikowski"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tCannes embraced Pawel Pawlikowski<\/a>\u2018s Fatherland<\/a><\/em> on Thursday night, as the new film from director of Ida<\/em> and Cold War<\/em> had it world premiere in competition at the Palais.<\/p>\n

\tThe filmmaker and his cast were awarded a four-and-a-half-minute standing ovation inside the Palais\u2019 Grand Lumi\u00e9re Theatre. \u201cThank you so much, I hope at least half of you really meant it,\u201d said Pawlikowski about the reception. \u201cTo be here with these beautiful people who worked on this film in really hard conditions, we have arrived at Versailles \u2014 at this beautiful temple to cinema \u2014 and all our strife and troubles are forgotten. And I think, for once, I really enjoyed watching my film,\u201d he laughed. \u201cLooking at these beautiful actors and great photography \u2014\u00a0everything. Thank you.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tPawlikowski walked the red carpet with his star Sandra H\u00fcller<\/a>, who was wearing a knock-out Liza Minnelli-esque feather wrap, Hanns Zischler\u00a0and\u00a0August Diehl, as well as supporting cast members Devid Striesow and Anna Madeley. Unsurprisingly, H\u00fcller, a Cannes darling, was awarded a huge applause ahead of the premiere.<\/p>\n

\tThe German-language film explores the relationship between Thomas Mann (Zischler) and his daughter Erika (H\u00fcller) on their return to Germany after the war and self-imposed exile. They travel through West and East Germany as Mann is lauded by both the communist and capitalist governments. The journey turns into a reckoning between father and daughter in their former homeland. The cast also includes Diehl (A Hidden Life<\/em>), Striesow (All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em>) and Madeley (In Bruges<\/em>). \t<\/p>\n

\tPawlikowski was last in Cannes with Cold War<\/em> in 2018, like Fatherland<\/a><\/em> a black-and-white period drama exploring the trauma of recent European history. The film won the best director prize and went on to secure a best director nomination at the Oscars. Pawlikowski\u2019s Ida<\/em> won the best international<\/a> feature Oscar in 2015. Pawlikowski co-wrote the Fatherland<\/em> screenplay with German director Hendrik Handloegten (Love in Thoughts<\/em>, Babylon Berlin<\/em>) and re-teamed with his Ida<\/em> and Cold War<\/em> cinematographer Lukasz \u017bal.<\/p>\n

\tH\u00fcller was the queen of Cannes three years ago, starring in Justine Triet\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or winning \u8ee2\u5012\u306e\u89e3\u5256\u5b66 <\/em>and Jonathan Glazer\u2019s Zone of Interest<\/em>, a one-two punch that catapulted the German actress to international fame and Hollywood projects. She is already having a phenomonal year. H\u00fcller won the best performance award at this year\u2019s Berlinale for her starring turn in Markus Schleinzer\u2019s drama Rose<\/em><\/a> and starred alongside Ryan Gosling in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller\u2019s sci-fi comedy blockbuster Project Hail Mary<\/a><\/em>. Following Fatherland<\/em>, she stars, together with Tom Cruise, in Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s upcoming feature Digger<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\tH\u00fcller will join Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u2018s executive awards editor for a live recording of\u00a0THR<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0Awards Chatter<\/em>\u00a0podcast<\/a>,\u00a0in Cannes on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cannes embraced Pawel Pawlikowski\u2018s Fatherland on Thursday night, as the new film from director of Ida and Cold War had it world premiere in competition at the Palais. The filmmaker and his cast were awarded a four-and-a-half-minute standing ovation inside the Palais\u2019 Grand Lumi\u00e9re Theatre. \u201cThank you so much, I hope at least half of you really meant it,\u201d said Pawlikowski about the reception. \u201cTo be here with these beautiful people who worked on this film in really hard conditions, we have arrived at Versailles \u2014 at this beautiful temple to cinema \u2014 and all our strife and troubles are forgotten. And I think, for once, I really enjoyed watching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[307,815,2,116,27,60,1048,818],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannes-2026","category-fatherland","category-hollywood","category-international","category-movie-news","category-movies","category-pawel-pawlikowski","category-sandra-huller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}