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 Gerulf Pannach [de], Fabienne Babe [fr], Cristine Rose and Sigfrit Steiner.

The film was partly financed by the German television broadcaster ZDF.

[2] As the film was partly in German, its audience was limited in English-speaking countries.

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.