
Fatherland is a movie directed by Christopher Menaul in 1994 and based on the book of the same name by Robert Harris, first published in 1991. The movie features Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Michael Kitchen, Jean Marsh, John Woodvine, and others.
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Storyline
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.
Movie vs Book

Year
1994
Minutes
106
Movie Rate
6.50
Source: IMDb

Year
1991
Pages
380
Book Rate
7.98
S: Goodreads
Book
Fatherland
Author: Robert Harris
Country: UK
First published in: 1991
Length: 380 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“I’m always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.”
SEAN PENN (Actor, Filmmaker)


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