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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

6.6 / 10

106 minutes

2016-06-02

German

AT

Actors :

Josef Hader, Barbara Sukowa, Aenne Schwarz, Matthias Brandt, Charly Hübner, André Szymanski, Nicolau Breyner, Lenn Kudrjawizki, Tómas Lemarquis, Naomi Krauss, Oscar Ortega Sánchez, Valerie Pachner, Matamba Joaquim, Alberto Ruano, Stephen Singer

Description

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

Reviews

badelf

badelf

1/20/2024, 12:27:14 AM

"I'm starting to hate politics, because it's becoming the opposite of justice, because it betrays the word with the slogan. To be an intellectual means to be just, to summon up an understanding for one's counterpart and adversaries." Stefan Zweig, a brilliant and poetic writer, was exiled from Germany because he was Jewish. He spent his exile trying to navigate the labyrinth between politics a...