Events | Screening・Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Los Angeles | July 10, 2018 | 8:00 PM – 11:32 AM
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Dir. Maria Schrader, Germany, 2015/16, 106 min, color, digital
In her haunting and subtly contemporary film, starring Josef Hader, Maria Schrader follows Austrian-Jewish writer Stefan Zweig's move from Europe into his South-American exile.
There is a banquet given in his honor in Rio, he takes part at the P.E.N.Congress in Buenos Aries, and spends some time in New York. In the fall of 1941 he and his wife Lotte settle in the Brazilian city of Petropolis. This is where he finishes his famous "The Royal Game" (Schachnovelle). In early 1942 the couple commits suicide.
STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE was Austria's entry for the 2018 Academy Awards and won the People's Choice Award for Best European Movie at the 2017 European Film Awards. The film was released theatrically in over 15 countries.
Maria Schrader is one of Germany's most acclaimed filmmakers and actresses. Two-time winner of the German Film Award and three-time winner of the Bavarian Film Award, she has worked with directors such as Margarethe von Trotta, Doris Dörrie, Peter Greenaway and Agnieszka Holland ("In Darkness"). She was awarded the Berlinale's Silver Bear as Best Actress in "Aimée & Jaguar" by Max Färberböck, which was nominated for the Golden Globes in 2000.
As an actress Maria Schrader recently appeared in the renowned series "Deutschland 83" (International Emmy for Best Series in 2016) as well as the BBC's "The City and The City". At Villa Aurora Maria Schrader is working on a new directing project.
