Peter Murmann

Humor, Situations

Disunited Kingdom

No Comments 28 June 2016

This will be painful years. Let’s hope anything good will come out of it.

Movies, Phantasy

Finding Dori

No Comments 27 June 2016

All weekend I have been reeling from the Brexit vote shock. The only time my mind could forget this calamity while watching *Finding Dori* at the cinema.

Movies, Documentary

Vor der Morgenröte (Before the Red Sun rises again)

No Comments 6 June 2016

Stefan Zweig is one of my favorite German writers. I already reviewed on these pages the film Secret Burning based on his novel and his Chess novel. Both are fantastic. This film is about the life of Zweig. I knew how Zweig’s life ended but I had no idea of his years in Exile. Zweig was a Jew and he—unlike so many others who ended up in concentration camps—had the good sense to leave Austria and Germany shortly after the Nazis took power. The film covers his exile years. Its method is to pick out 5 episodes in a ten year period. Vor der Morgenröteis as poetic as Zweig’s work and it is a major accomplishment. The performance of Josef Hader as Zweig is stunning.