Very boring! I find Hader as Zweig horrible with his Upper Austrian accent, Hader only plays himself. It is not at all clear, in this film, why Zweig finally committed suicide. And the Brazilians are portrayed as bumpkins. A lousy film, somehow a way a German teacher of German may imagine Stefan Zweig's life, that's how the film is constructed.
For me, the best film on the emigrant fate of Viennese Jews is still Axel Corti's ingenious three-part film "Wohin und zurück" (Where to and back) starring Gabriel Barylli. The difference is also that "Wohin und Zurück" was made by the people concerned themselves, the screenplay was written by Georg Stefan Troller, himself a Viennese Jew who had to flee in 1938, and Axel Corti was the child of refugees who fled Nazi Germany/Austria, which you can sense in the trilogy. In the "Morgenröte" film everything is so theoretical, boring, detached and neither real nor serious. The director was a German actress/director who is not Jewish herself. I also found it funny that at Zweig's deathbed the Russian migrant friend says a Jewish prayer, a Kaddish? - Zweig was an assimilated Jew and not at all Orthodox, not religious at all, he didnt see himself as a Jew, Hitler made him into a Jew and an emigrant. In summary a real missed opportunity to make a great movie about an author that is almost forgotten today outside of Austria and Germany, but was famous all over the world in the 1930s.
For me, the best film on the emigrant fate of Viennese Jews is still Axel Corti's ingenious three-part film "Wohin und zurück" (Where to and back) starring Gabriel Barylli. The difference is also that "Wohin und Zurück" was made by the people concerned themselves, the screenplay was written by Georg Stefan Troller, himself a Viennese Jew who had to flee in 1938, and Axel Corti was the child of refugees who fled Nazi Germany/Austria, which you can sense in the trilogy. In the "Morgenröte" film everything is so theoretical, boring, detached and neither real nor serious. The director was a German actress/director who is not Jewish herself. I also found it funny that at Zweig's deathbed the Russian migrant friend says a Jewish prayer, a Kaddish? - Zweig was an assimilated Jew and not at all Orthodox, not religious at all, he didnt see himself as a Jew, Hitler made him into a Jew and an emigrant. In summary a real missed opportunity to make a great movie about an author that is almost forgotten today outside of Austria and Germany, but was famous all over the world in the 1930s.