Release Date

01 Jan, 2013

Runtime

00:52: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

11/1

Synopsis

In eleven episodes we get to know eleven countries through one or more literary greats and the works they created. Diverse archives as well as reports by writers filmed in emblematic places form these kaleidoscope portraits of Europe and national belonging. Four authors with converging perspectives on a Germany that is at the center of all questions of identity: Christoph Hein, Wladimir Kaminer, Bernhard Schlink and Emine Sevgi Özdamar. In Iceland we meet Arni Thorarinsson, one of the masters of the crime novel, Jon Kalman Stefánsson, more in the romantic tradition, and Audur Ava Olafsdottir with offbeat humor and modernity. Through the strength of their literary identity, we understa

Original Title

Writers of Europe

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Season 1

01 Jan, 2013

Actors

Crew

Sylvain Bergère

Francesca Isidori