Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)

2016-06-021h 46m

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

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