Feature Film
Drama

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

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.

Data

Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: DCP, 100 Min
Release: 03.06.2016
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 73.123
Co-production: X Filme (DE), Idéale Audience (FR)
International funding: Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mini Traité, Creative Europe Media (Entwicklungsförderung)
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 15.09.2019
Viewers: 110.000
Further information: Österreichische Nominierung für den "Auslands-Oscar" 2017
Film location: Germany, Sao Tomé, Lisbon
Shooting time: April - June 2015
Completion: Spring 2016
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut

Credits

Production: DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria: Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
Director: Maria Schrader
Script: Maria Schrader, Jan Schomburg
DOP: Wolfgang Thaler
Editor: Hansjörg Weissbrich
Sound engineer: Philippe Garnier
Costume design: Jürgen Döring
Set design: Silke Fischer
Music: Tobias Wagner
Cast: Josef Hader (Stefan Zweig), Barbara Sukowa (Friderike Zweig), Aenne Schwarz (Lotte Zweig)
Production manager: Martin Rohrbeck
German Title: Vor der Morgenröte
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), BR (inkl. ARTE, WDR)