This year the ACF’s Cineclub will screen several films based on and inspired by the works of Austrian author Stefan Zweig in anticipation of the release of the film Farewell to Europe (UK release date TBC). Zweig was a great believer in a united Europe and the film is based on the author’s life in exile.

We begin this cinematic ode to Zweig with the film Letter from an Unknown Woman. The film tells the story of a doomed romance. In turn of the century Vienna, Lisa falls madly in love with concert pianist Stefan Brand, a self-centered womanizer.

USA, 1948, 87 mins, English, directed by Max Ophüls