The Farewell

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The Farewell

2002

1h 33m

Drama

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German playwright Bertold Brecht (Josef Bierbichler) invites friends, lovers and artistic collaborators to his summer house.

Bilge Ebiri

Citysearch

01/18/2002

The author's devotees will probably find it fascinating; others may find it baffling.

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John Anderson

Newsday

01/16/2002

Intelligent, caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being.

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

01/16/2002

3/4

The movie is full of fine performances, led by Josef Bierbichler as Brecht and Monica Bleibtreu as Helene Weigel, his wife.

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Marta Barber

Miami Herald

06/02/2006

3/4

A gentle film about a lion of a man who, as a communist, was forced to leave Germany, lived almost penniless in Europe and America during the war and returned to his homeland in 1948.

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Film Threat

12/06/2005

2.5/5

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

08/21/2005

2/5

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09/13/2019

A little story that went now

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10/22/2017

This film is seductive in so many ways. It begins slowly and intertwines love affairs, politics, theatre, and bio in a complete tapestry. I cared about the characters and wanted to know more about each of them. That's very rare in nay film.

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02/08/2009

A boring, bourgeois, posthumous, cowardly attempted hit-job on Brecht (even featuring him passing gas in company). Almost a petty, perverse, malicious, vengeful celebration of Brecht's death. Or rather a post-GDR German liberal/capitalist attempt to nullify/exorcise Brecht the communist devil. Perhaps most telling of all, the film falls far short of even approaching the power of any of Brecht's plays.

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04/10/2008

The most important film known to man about the last days of Bertolt Brecht's life. Yeah, that Bertolt Brecht.

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Jan Schutte

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Synopsis

German playwright Bertold Brecht (Josef Bierbichler) invites friends, lovers and artistic collaborators to his summer house.

Director: Jan Schutte
Producer: Gesche Carstens, Henryk Romanowski, Jan Schutte
Screenwriter: Klaus Pohl
Distributor: New Yorker Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 16, 2002, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.0K
Runtime: 1h 33m