STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE(VOR

STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE(VOR DER MORGENRÖTE), 2016

Germany, Austria, France Blu-ray, Color, 106', German, English

Director: Maria Schrader

Cast: Josef Hader, Barbara Sukowa, Aenne Schwarz

One of the most acclaimed features of this past year, this biographic film focuses on the Austrian Jewish author Stefan Zweig’s years of exile in the American continent. Zweig relocates to London after he flees Nazi Germany in 1934. In 1940, he emigrates to the United States with his wife to first live in New York, and then to Brazil until the time he commits suicide.Stefan Zweig: Farewell To Europeis comprised of four parts and focuses on the latter stages of Zweig’s life, the years between 1936 and 1942. The film successfully depicts Zweig’s efforts to evaluate the events taking place in his country as an intellectual, and how he slowly sinks into a depression. Maria Schrader won the Best Director award at the 2016 Bavarian Film Awards for Stefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe, her second feature film as a director.