The Tobacconist

Germany | 2018 | 108 min • Narrative Feature

Showings

Sedona Performing Arts Center Sun, Feb 24, 2019 4:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Narrative Feature
Release Year:2018
Run Time:108
Production Country:Germany
Original Language:German
Subtitles:English
Trailer:https://youtu.be/r_eqtpuEAJE
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Nikolaus Leytner
Cast:Simon Morzé
Bruno Ganz
Johannes Krisch
Producer(s):Dieter Pochlatko
Jakob Pochlatko
Ralf Zimmermann
Screenwriter:Nikolaus Leytner
Klaus Richter
Robert Seethaler (novel)

Description

Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler and starring Bruno Ganz ("Downfall", "Wings of Desire") as Sigmund Freud. "The Tobacconist" is a tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud (Bruno Ganz), a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship.


When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically worsen with the Nazis' arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, and Anezka are swept into the maelstrom of events. Each has a big decision to make: to stay or to flee?