| Fatherland | |
| Director: | Ken Loach |
| Screenplay: | Trevor Griffiths |
| Producer: | Raymond Day |
| Starring: | Gerulf Pannach |
| Cinematography: | Chris Menges |
| Editing: | Jonathan Morris |
| Music: | Christian Kunert Gerulf Pannach |
| Studio: | Kestrel II MK2 Productions |
| Distributor: | Film Four International |
| Runtime: | 110 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom Germany |
| Language: | English German |
| Budget: | £884,000 |
Fatherland (released as Singing the Blues in Red in the US) is a 1986 film about a German singer-songwriter, directed by Ken Loach and starring,, Cristine Rose and Sigfrit Steiner.
The film was partly financed by the German television broadcaster ZDF.
The film is one of Loach's least-popular films, being referred to as "a heavy-handed and absurd political drama" in MIT's newspaper The Tech[1] and Loach said in a 2016 Guardian interview that he "made a mess" of the film.[2] As the film was partly in German, its audience was limited in English-speaking countries. Between its cinematic release and the 2013 DVD release, the film was rare.
When the film was broadcast, they cut the scene in which Gerulf Pannach attacks a Christian Democrat politician for his fascist past. Loach said in an interview, "It was ironic that they should cut the only decent scene in the film."[3]