(Austerlitz)

Content: “You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own innermost secrets.” So begins Stan Neumann’s cinematic adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel, Austerlitz. The vaulted and majestic space of the railway station in Antwerp is where our journey really starts with actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) addressing the camera directly, and musing on the curious nature of railway stations. This bravura opening is startling, charming, and like the unnamed narrator of the book, you surrender to the proceedings and perambulate alongside Lavant, as he journeys through the great buildings of Europe, faded and shuttered hotels and grand colonnades with broken windows.

Countries:

France

Genres:

Documentary,

Drama

Runtime:

90 minutes

Year:

2015

Directors:

Stan Neumann

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Production companies:

Les Films d'Ici,

ARTE,

La Région Île-de-France

Actors:

Jacques Austerlitz

Marie de Verneuil

Vera (as Vera Pavlíková)

Le musicien

La vendeuse

Crews:

Writer

Novel

Editor

Costume Design

Producer