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1) A promise
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another. Eight years later, with millions dead and Europe in ruins, the exile returns, to his homeland and to the woman he hopes has been waiting for him. But has their love survived the brutal passage of time?
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In early 20th century Vienna, Stefan Brand is in the process of fleeing on the eve of a duel he wants no part of. However, before he can do so, he receives an anonymous letter from an unknown woman. Stefan is deeply moved by what he reads and starts to realize that the letter's author is Lisa Berndl, a young woman he's known but disregarded for most of his life.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler's rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical nonfiction. It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming...
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