Top Billed Cast

Josef Hader
Stefan Zweig
Barbara Sukowa
Friderike Zweig
Aenne Schwarz
Lotte Zweig
Matthias Brandt
Ernst Feder
Charly Hübner
Emil Ludwig
André Szymanski
Joseph Brainin
Nicolau Breyner
Leopold Stern
Lenn Kudrjawizki
Samuel Malamud
Tómas Lemarquis
Lefèvre
Naomi Krauss
Erna Feder
Oscar Ortega Sánchez
Reporter Sanchez
Valerie Pachner
Alix Störk
Matamba Joaquim
Mendes
Alberto Ruano
Guest
Stephen Singer
Ben Huebsch
Luka Omoto
Young Couple Andrade
Virgílio Castelo
Macedo Soares
João Didelet
Mayor Dos Santos
Lorna Ishema
Maid
Márcia Breia
Gabriela Mistral
João Cabral
Herr Mertinez
Franziska Traub
Frau Levy
Gabriela Barros
Lady 1 Facenda
João Lagarto
Claudio de Souza
Manuel Wiborg
Commissar Rattes
Manuel Cortez
Maitre
Carla Vasconcelos
Claudia dos Santos
Benedikt Erlingsson
Halldor Laxness
Cristina do Rego
Alzira Vargas
Isabel Leitão
Lady 2 Facenda

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A review by badelf

Written by badelf on Fri Jan 19 2024

"I'm starting to hate politics, because it's becoming the opposite of justice, because it betrays the word with the slogan. To be an intellectual means to be just, to summon up an understanding for one's counterpart and adversaries." Stefan Zweig, a brilliant and poetic writer, was exiled from Germany because he was Jewish. He spent his exile trying to navigate the labyrinth between politics and justice. That journey crushed him. How ironic that, at the time I watch this film, the USA is on same cusp as that of 1930s Germany. On the verge of potentially electing an authoritarian racist e...