Stefan Zweig was the most read author of the German language in the 1930s. He believed in a united, peaceful Europe and travelled most parts of the world. He was a pacifist and was torn apart by to the cruelties and horrors of the second World War. He committed suicide in Brasil. This documentary tells the story of his life.

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The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he app...

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

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A quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," precedes views ...
Founded in 1947, “Group 47” made half‐yearly authors read publicly and endure brutal critique, launc...

The documentary is a true story of four real intellectual Europeans from different cultures who are ...

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads...

This documentary contains dramatized episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant...

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Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker...

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese...

Poet, essayist, novelist and filmmaker, Michel Houellebecq has always had close ties with the cinema...

In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This dipl...

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...