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  • 2017
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2017
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary The years of exile in the life of Stefan Zweig, one of the most read German-language writers of his time, between Buenos Aires, New York and Brazil. As a Jewish intellectual, Zweig struggles to find the right stance towards the events in Nazi Germany, while searching for a home in the new world. [First Run Features]

Directed By: Maria Schrader

Written By: Jan Schomburg, Maria Schrader

  • 2017
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2017
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 46 m

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
75
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary The years of exile in the life of Stefan Zweig, one of the most read German-language writers of his time, between Buenos Aires, New York and Brazil. As a Jewish intellectual, Zweig struggles to find the right stance towards the events in Nazi Germany, while searching for a home in the new world. [First Run Features]

Directed By: Maria Schrader

Written By: Jan Schomburg, Maria Schrader

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Mixed
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90
Jun 15, 2017
"Stefan Zweig" is only Schrader's second film as a director, but, armed with clear ideas of what she wanted to convey and how she wanted to convey it, she's made a movie that allows its actors to fully inhabit their characters in a potent but low-key way.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
90
May 11, 2017
Much of the feature’s quietly accumulated emotional power derives from the fact that viewers have to connect some of the dots themselves. Indeed, just like in the subject’s own work, the imagination of the audience is as important an ingredient for the final result as what is actually written or suggested.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
90
May 11, 2017
Aenne Schwarz and Barbara Sukowa give strong performances as the author’s second and first wives, respectively, but this is Hader’s movie. His is one of the great performances of recent years.
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70
May 11, 2017
One need not admire Zweig’s writing to recognize the worth of this thoughtful treatment of one of the countless real-life tragedies of 20th-century history.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 8, 2017
"Farewell to Europe” is a little like Zweig himself: smart, overly fastidious and remote to a fault. By avoiding Zweig’s inner life, his eventual collapse seems all the more perfunctory.
By Alan Zilberman FULL REVIEW
63
May 7, 2017
The film hovers between being a straight-up biopic of Zweig and a diagnosis of neoliberalism's recent ceding to neofascist policy and nationalistic fervor.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
60
May 11, 2017
This articulate, formally immaculate portrait proves less compelling in practice than it does in principle: Over-burdened at the outset with extraneous ceremonial detail and starchy speechifying, the film takes a dry, acolytes-only approach before later, more domestically focused chapters raise the body temperature of proceedings.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW

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Production Company X-Filme Creative Pool, Idéale Audience, Maha Productions, Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), ARTE, Arte France Cinéma, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Release Date May 12, 2017
Duration 1 h 46 m
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Website http://www.vordermorgenroete.x-verleih.de/
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Awards

German Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Austrian Film Award, AT
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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