Stefan Zweig, Farewell To Europe(EUFF 2017)

Austrian-Jewish writer, Stefan Zweig was the most widely read and most translated German author in the thirties. After the National Socialists came to power, his books were banned in Germany and later in Austria. From 1940 until his death in 1942, he lived mainly in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife, Lotte, took their own lives. The film covers the years of exile in the life of Stefan Zweig, 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. The film depicts not only some of his memories with his families and friends in the last few years of his life, but also his efforts to keep working in Brazil while longing for his spiritual hometown — Europe.