Stefan Zweig
Nascimento : 1881-11-28, Wien, Austria
Morte : 1942-02-22
História
Stefan Zweig (Viena, 28 de novembro de 1881 – Petrópolis, 22 de fevereiro de 1942) foi um escritor, romancista, poeta, dramaturgo, jornalista e biógrafo austríaco de origem judaica.
A partir da década de 1920 e até sua morte foi um dos escritores mais famosos e vendidos do mundo. Suicidou-se durante seu exílio no Brasil, deprimido com a expansão da barbárie nazista pela Europa, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Seu sucesso como autor dramático foi confirmado em 1912, quando suas peças "A Metamorfose da Comédia" e "A Mansão à Beira-mar" foram apresentadas em Viena.
Zweig e Lotte empreenderam três viagens ao Brasil. Na primeira, entre 1940 e 1941, para uma série de palestras pelo país, escreveu da Bahia para Manfred e Hannah Altmann, seus cunhados.
Foi nesta primeira viagem que Zweig, com a ajuda de Lotte, reuniu suas anotações pessoais e finalizou o ensaio "Brasil, país do futuro". A alcunha de "País do Futuro", criada por Zweig, se tornaria um apelido para o Brasil.
Zweig foi recebido com entusiasmo tanto pela comunidade intelectual local quanto pelas autoridades políticas. Para os intelectuais brasileiros, a presença de tão renomado escritor em terras nacionais trazia prestígio e oportunidades de um intercâmbio com outros escritores estrangeiros. Mas para as autoridades políticas, a chegada de Zweig, com sua bagagem liberal e antinazista, era contraditória. O governo de Getúlio Vargas se mantinha no poder graças às políticas autoritárias e muitos de seus ministros e assessores militares eram simpatizantes do nazifascismo. Isso não impediu que os elementos menos autoritários do estado brasileiro usassem Stefan Zweig para atingirem seus objetivos.
Em 22 de fevereiro de 1942, deprimido com o crescimento da intolerância e do autoritarismo na Europa e sem esperanças no futuro da humanidade, Zweig escreveu uma carta de despedida e suicidou-se com a esposa, Lotte, com uma dose fatal de barbitúricos, na cidade de Petrópolis, no Brasil. A notícia chocou tanto os brasileiros quanto seus admiradores de todo mundo. O casal foi sepultado no Cemitério Municipal de Petrópolis, de acordo com as tradições fúnebres judaicas. From Wikipedia (pt), the free encyclopedia
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O remake da obra homônima de Stefan Zweig, Schachnovelle (1960). Advogado Dr. Josef Bartok é sequestrado pelos nacional-socialistas para que possam se apossar da grande fortuna que administra. Quando Bartok permanece em silêncio, os nazistas o prendem e o deixam vegetar sem contato ou distração. Quando Bartok está à beira de ser mentalmente quebrado, se depara com um livro em que os movimentos das partidas de xadrez foram registrados em um ardil. Por falta de alternativas, ele internaliza esses jogos. Anos depois, quando ele conhece o atual campeão mundial de xadrez em um navio, a insanidade da prisão toma conta.
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The 1920s, Germany, times of hyperinflation. A young antique dealer realizes that his father’s shop is on the verge of going bankrupt. While going through the journal records, he finds notes about an old client, who owns a priceless collection. He decides to go to the province, hoping to buy it for dirt-cheap.
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Paris, 1942. Em plena ocupação nazista, Victor Gence, um marchand sem escrúpulos, compra por uma ninharia obras de arte de colecionadores judeus. Informado por uma zeladora, ele consegue entrar no apartamento do Sr. Klein, que aparentemente possui uma coleção fabulosa.
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As aventuras de Gustave H, dono de um famoso hotel europeu, e Zero Moustafa, o criado que se torna no seu amigo de confiança. A história envolve o roubo e a recuperação de uma preciosa pintura renascentista e a luta por uma enorme fortuna de família - tudo sob o cenário de um continente que passa por inesperadas e dramáticas mudanças.
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Um acontecimento inesperado deprime Beto, que abandona o seu trabalho e viaja para Itajuípe, na Bahia, em busca de valiosas obras de arte, que estão com um colecionador, Samir. Descobre que ele foi uma grande produtor de cacau, que vive com a mulher Clara e a filha Saada em sua fazenda, cego e praticamente falido, depois do ataque da praga vassoura-de-bruxa, que destruiu sua plantação
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Alemanha, 1912. Um jovem diplomata (Richard Madden) ingressa no serviço administrativo de uma usina siderúrgica. Por conta do seu bom trabalho, seu patrão (Alan Rickman) o contrata para o posto de secretário particular. Conforme os dias passam, ele conhece e se aproxima da esposa (Rebecca Hall) do chefe, apaixonando-se perdidamente por ela. Ele recebe a missão de ir ao México repentinamente e, ao anunciar sua partida, a mulher entra em desespero, realizando que ambos se amam. Sendo assim, fazem uma promessa de amor: um dia ele irá retornar e os dois finalmente ficarão juntos.
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Mary (Camille Rutherford) foi destinada a se tornar a rainha da França. Mas depois que seu jovem marido morre, ela volta sozinha para a Escócia, um país devastado pela guerra. Ao mesmo tempo, Elizabeth acaba de se tornar a rainha da Inglaterra. Mary se casa novamente, com Lord Darnley (Aneurin Barnard), e tem um herdeiro, mas ela encontra o amor verdadeiro nos braços do Conde de Bothwell (Sean Biggerstaff). Quando seu segundo marido é assassinado e ela assume seu amor publicamente, tanto os nobres como o povo a desprezam. Para evitar uma guerra, Mary terá que desistir de sua felicidade.
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Uma história sobre arte e homens cultos, e sobre como a sua arte e a sua cultura se revelam inúteis face à dura realidade da vida no século XX.
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All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.
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Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him -a life-long passion that has not diminished over time, but one that he has never known. her story spans 18 years from the moment she -then a 13 year-old girl- sets her eyes on her new neighbor. she tells their brief but passionate love in her youthi the hardship she goes through raising their child alone, and their final encounter after the war, during which the man fails tor ecognize her and one which leaves her in despair. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on. Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time. shaken by the letter, the man searches his memory for the nameless woman.
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Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
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Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a stranger. He discovers that she devoted her entire life to her boundless love. In her letter, Rose looks back on a variety of meetings with Albert: Since childhood, she is slavishly in love with him and she never got away from her throughout her life. In many encounters Rank could not recognize them, even if the shared moments had been wonderful. As an adult woman, Rose's love is too painful to go on, and she has dire consequences.
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Vienna before the First World War: Clarissa Schuhmeister grows up in the monastery. Strict discipline determines her life until she meets the Frenchman Léonard and falls in love with him. Just when she expects a child from him, the First World War tears the happy couple apart. Out of pragmatism, Clarissa marries Gottfried, a deserter, with whom she makes a painful yet realistic agreement so that he will not be sent back to war. But she never feels love for him because she can not forget Léonard.
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The story of Marquise De Prie, the wife of Marquis De Savoy and the mistress of King Louis XV.
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Edgar M. and his mother come abroad a small ship to Eden Sanatorium spa. It is here that the wife, wronged by her husband, will seek a cure for her bad headache, while the 13-year-old Edgar M. is fighting his first male impulses as well as 'enoresis nocturna', the prettier word for wetting one's bed. The boy's amazed gaze hungrily devours the diverse hotel guests, their love joys and sorrows, while passion lustfully penetrates the walls, carried by the voice of the enchanting opera singer.
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Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans living in colonial establishments in Africa and Asia. In this drama, based on a story by Stefan Zweig, Dr. Steiner (Andrzej Seweryn) was caught with his fingers in the till at a German hospital. Rather than prosecute him, they gave him the option of emigrating elsewhere. He chose to serve at a clinic in a remote part of Portuguese Goa. He has been on his best behavior for years, but when the beautiful wife (Fanny Ardant) of a diplomat comes to him asking for an abortion, he is tempted to ask for sexual favors in return, and his life swiftly goes out of control.
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While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed.
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It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.
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Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple lieutenant Anton Hofmiller and Edith, the paralyzed daughter of the count, who is the richest man in the region.
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Mona loves her Husband Ahmed and Kid Khaled, but Husband is always away on business trips around the world, which leaves the wife and kid in constant waiting status.on a vacation to tunis,an affair start taking form,and that made her torn between her family and longing for love feelings.
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Alice, a widowed Frenchwoman, goes on a vacation to Italy. Upon her return, she relates the particulars of her holiday. Within a 24-hour time frame, Alice gets on the wrong boat, winds up in Switzerland where she whiles away the hours at a casino, meets a handsome young German army deserter named Thomas, spends the night with her new acquaintance, pays his sizeable gambling debts, and helps him elude the authorities...
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Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. Byzance is one of Pialat’s six Turkish shorts.
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Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her strait-laced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.
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Werner von Basil (a Austrian intellectual) was captured by the Nazi in 1938. The want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
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Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.
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Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
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Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose this to her husband, hoping to preserve his innocence and their "perfect marriage". This fills her with anxiety and guilt. However, Johann Schultze, Erich's jealous ex-girlfriend, learns about the affair and begins to blackmail Irene, turning Irene's psychological torture into a harsh reality.
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A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
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The captain Alekos Nikolopoulos doesn't get along with his wife. One day, he receives a letter from a woman he had met before the war who reminds him that she is pregnant.
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Na Viena do século 19, a jovem e tímida Lisa se apaixona por Stefan, pianista famoso e mulherengo. Anos depois, já adulta, ela se entrega a ele. Logo em seguida, o músico parte em turnê sem saber que havia engravidado Lisa.
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A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.
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A European doctor, in self-imposed exile in some place like Borneo, obsesses crazily over a ruling-class white woman.
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An unusually intense and emotional day in the otherwise monotonous life of a woman.
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Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
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Maria Antonieta (Norma Shearer) é uma linda princesa austríaca com casamento marcado com o herdeiro do trono francês Luís Augusto (Robert Morley), casamento este arranjado por motivos políticos. Já no palácio francês, Maria encontra-se caída entre as intrigas da família real, principalmente entre o Rei Luís XV e seu maléfico primo, o Conde de Orleans (Joseph Schidkraut). Para alívio de Maria, Luís só poderia casar-se com ela caso ele se tornasse Rei. Certo dia, em um cassino, Maria conhece o Conde Axel de Fersen (Tyrone Power), e ambos se sentem atraídos imediatamente um pelo outro. Sentindo-se realizada com seu amante, Maria recebe uma notícia que não esperava tão logo, o Rei Luís XV havia morrido. Sabendo então que o Conde poderia manter um caso com a noiva do príncipe, mas não com a Rainha da França, Maria teria então que decidir entre seu coração e a realeza.
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A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
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Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illness which turns innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day, he is called on by Helene Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover's child before her husband returns from abroad. Even though Holk is enchanted by her seductive beauty, he haughtily refuses her request. Rejected, the woman turns to a Chinese practitioner. When Holk tracks her down in a dirty dive, it's already too late for the two of them.
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On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
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After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion.
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"The Fear of an Unfaithful Woman" - Inge Duhan lives with her husband, the lawyer Erich Duhan, and her little daughter Susi in Berlin. Inge is a very attractive woman. She loves her husband and has always been faithful to him. On a holiday trip to the French Riviera Inge meet the charming painter Francard. A brief affair begins that turns into blackmail.
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The proprietors of a small inn on the Italian coast suddenly have to cater for a company of conscripts on their way to a nearby port. One of the sergeants recognizes Resa as a former "camp-follower". When her husband hears of this he becomes insanely jealous and decides to join the company.
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Christine looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined. But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom.
