Released:
2015-05-06

Overview:
“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own innermost secrets.” So begins Stan Neumann’s cinematic adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel, Austerlitz. The vaulted and majestic space of the railway station in Antwerp is where our journey really starts with actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) addressing the camera directly, and musing on the curious nature of railway stations. This bravura opening is startling, charming, and like the unnamed narrator of the book, you surrender to the proceedings and perambulate alongside Lavant, as he journeys through the great buildings of Europe, faded and shuttered hotels and grand colonnades with broken windows.

Director:
Stan Neumann

Runtime:
1h 30min

Genre:
Documentary, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Denis Lavant
  as
  Jacques Austerlitz
• 
  Roxane Duran
  as
  Marie de Verneuil
• 
  Viera Pavlíková
  as
  Vera (as Vera Pavlíková)
• 
  Dominique Pifarély
  as
  Le musicien
• 
  Veronika Výprachtická
  as
  La vendeuse