The German only makes big – premiere at the Staatsschauspiel in Dresden: Robert Harris’ fatherland | free press

In the US film “Fatherland” (1994), everyday scenes from East Berlin in the 1960s are shown, for example from Alexanderplatz. That was irritating, because the Berlin that writer Robert Harris described in his 1992 novel of the same name had nothing to do with the socialist chic of GDR Berlin. In his book it is…