Poland’s doyen of beautifully understated efficiency completes a trilogy of historical dramas with this pocket biopic that focuses on a road trip taken by Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his bohemian daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller), following the suicide of his son and her brother, through the proud ruins of post-war Germany.
Sandra Hüller
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...a crowd-pleasing and at times genuinely wondrous mixture of scientific curiosity and human warmth, speaking a common language of optimism in the hope of rising above the din of a real world desperate to destroy itself.