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- 2002
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 37 m
- 2002
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 37 m
Summary A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family. (Film Forum)
Directed By: Jan Schütte
Written By: Klaus Pohl
- 2002
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 37 m
- 2002
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 37 m
Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer
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Summary A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family. (Film Forum)
Directed By: Jan Schütte
Written By: Klaus Pohl
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
58
50% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Full of fine performances, led by Josef Bierbichler as Brecht and Monica Bleibtreu as Helene Weigel, his wife. Taken on its own terms, The Farewell makes for rewarding viewing.
Marvelously grizzled and tender, Josef Bierbichler's Brecht wheezes and grumbles through it all.
Edward Klosinski's staid cinematography lends the film a feeling of late summer languor, a deceptive calm before a terrible storm. The spare, evocative piano soundtrack is by John Cale.
As a sketch of the twilight of a great artist, The Farewell has merit, but the sketch would be better used as the background to a mural.
Extremely well acted. But as frequently as The Farewell touches on politics, it is essentially an excoriating (and sometimes grimly amusing) domestic drama of a latter-day king and his concubines.
A sad, almost morbid -- and cinematically inert -- eulogy to a complex man whose own genius was dampened by arrogance and politics.
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Production Company
ARTE,
European Script Fund,
Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB),
Filmcontract Ltd.,
Filmförderung Hamburg,
Kulturstiftung der Deutschen Bank,
Novoskop Film,
Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB),
Studio Babelsberg Independents,
Südwestrundfunk (SWR),
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Release Date Jan 16, 2002
Duration 1 h 37 m
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
