Farewell to the Parents

Farewell to the Parents (2017)

Drama

The film is based on the eponymous 1960 novel by author Peter Weiss. In this autobiographical text, the author describes the years of his childhood and youth in Germany in the 20s and 30s as well as the flight of his half-Jewish family from persecution by the Nazis. This odyssey also portrays the young first-person narrator’s struggle for his artistic existence, as he was striving to establish himself as a painter and writer. In a free, sensual essay between fiction and document, realistic description and stylised invention, the film attempts to kindle today’s flame based on the past’s, and to create a new and vibrant third work from it. (Locarno Festival)

Director: Astrid Ofner

Casts

	Sven Dolinsky as Peter Weiss (narrator)
	Peter Nestler as Voice of the father
	Peter Nestler as Father (voice)
	Selma Bindewald as
	Coline Cisar as
	Nora Conradi as
	Sven Horst as

Crew