Maria Schrader – Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe AKA Vor der Morgenröte (2016)
German actress Maria Schrader subsequently became well-known as the director of the prize-winning 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox. But in this 2016 feature film her considerable directing talents are already on clear display as she portrays Austrian author Stefan Zweig’s years of exile after 1936, moving between Buenos Aires, New York, and Brazil in search of a new home.
Zweig, whose writings inspired the film The Grand Budapest Hotel, was one of the most prominent Jewish intellectuals in Europe between the wars. Schrader shows him struggling with life as a nomad and with his separation from the homeland whose language had always nourished him. Though in despair at the collapse of European civilisation, Zweig hesitates to publicly denounce the Nazi regime…
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Language(s):Multiple languages (mainly German, but also Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, and Russian)
Subtitles: English (non-English parts) srt, default; German, srt; German (non-German parts), srt; German SDH, PGS/sup
