Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday, and it arrives with the kind of reviews most directors wait a career for. It won him the Best Director prize at Cannes in May, in a tie with another film, and critics have lined up to praise Sandra Hüller in the lead.

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