Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2017)
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
”A Jewish writer flees Nazi Germany and struggles to find a new home in war-torn Europe.”
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A powerful biography of Stefan Zweig, one of the world's most famous writers in his time and who, as a Jew, had to flee from the Germans after the rise of Nazism. The film portrays this period of exile in America, culminating with Zweig falling in love with a great country to the south of the same continent: ours. In 1941, the writer would coin the phrase "Brazil, country of the future". Yet the growth of barbarism and intolerance did not allow him to find peace.
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The years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.
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