Fatherland - 1986 - 6/10
AKA - Singing The Blues In Red

1985, protest singer Klaus is being nudged out of East Germany.
True, he is offered choices: prison, recant, or the exit door.
Once in the West, music execs are quick to offer a recording deal.
He is a hot property, and the industry wants to take advantage while he remains hot.
Klaus is no innocent, however, and resists being treated as a commodity.
There is a subplot of Klaus’s father, a fellow musician, who defected a generation earlier.
Dialogue about and with the father is muffled or mumbled, leaving me unsure there.
Despite that, this is a film of outsiders / observers, who understand that whatever the ism (Communism, Capitalism, Nazism) they, and by extension us, will be exploited.