Sandra Hüller: "I don't like the term 'home'"

For Sandra Hüller, "home" is not a word that can be taken for granted. Rather one that is viewed from a distance - with caution, even skepticism. "I don't really have a connection to it. I don't really use the term either," the actress told the German Press Agency in Cannes. The 48-year-old plays the female lead in "Vaterland" as the daughter of writer Thomas Mann.

She moves around the world naturally, knows her way around and feels at home there, she explained: "I don't know if that automatically makes it home." Perhaps home is more of a place "that you don't have to explain."

Differentiating from the term

However, she does have a firm anchor: Thuringia, where she was born. "The forest there or the people, the food," she said. Impressions that remain without having to be pulled together into one big term.

At the same time, she clearly distances herself from the word itself. "It's a term that for me is also politically charged in a way that I don't like. I don't like this term."

Competition for the Palme d'Or

The drama by Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski tells the story of a journey through the destroyed Germany of 1949. At the wheel of a black limousine, daughter and father make their way through a country in ruins, which they had left after the Nazi Party came to power. The drama, which also stars Hanns Zischler and August Diehl, is in competition for the Palme d'Or.