Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

6.6(78)20161h 46m

DramaHistory

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.

Director

Maria Schrader

Cast

Josef Hader

Stefan Zweig

Barbara Sukowa

Friderike Zweig

Aenne Schwarz

Lotte Zweig

Tómas Lemarquis

Lefèvre

Valerie Pachner

Alix Störk

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Vitor D'Almeida

Naomi Krauss

Erna Feder

Cristina do Rego

Alzira Vargas

Lenn Kudrjawizki

Samuel Malamud

Natalia Belitski

Mrs. Malamud

Charly Hübner

Emil Ludwig

Irina Potapenko

Paulina Koogan

Reviews

1 review

badelf

2y ago

7.0

"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...