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The Tobacconist
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JUDITH SKLAR AND STAN VOYLES


The Tobacconist

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two 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? Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler.


Film Details
Director:
Nikolaus Leytner
Country:
Austria
Language:
German w/English subtitles
Running time:
108 min
Year:
2018
Genre: Drama
 
 
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