Acclaimed as an actor, Maria Schrader (Aimée and Jaguar, In Darkness) exhibits her sharp directorial craft by chronicling the years Stefan Zweig, one of the most-read German-language writers of his time, spent in exile. The film, told in five chapters, follows Zweig from the early 1930s until 1942, between Buenos Aires, New York, and Brazil. As a Jewish intellectual, Zweig struggles to find a nuanced stance on Hitler’s rise to power, while searching for a home in the new world. Schrader’s penetrating film is as much about a tormented literary icon as it is about a continent going up in flames. Starring Josef Hader as Zweig and Barbara Sukowa (Hannah Arendt) as his first wife, Friderike.