Using images from the eponymous film, Vienna Before Night follows the story of Wolf Leib Fränkel, the author’s great-grandfather, who moves to this city on his return from Ellis Island and dies there in 1929 before "Nazi night" falls over Europe. For the author, the life of Wolf Leïb Fränkel and that of the great writers who frequented the famous Viennese cafés are inseparable.
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In the presence of the author Robert Bober, of Élisabeth de Fontenay, philosopher, and Jacques Le Rider, historian specialist of Vienna.
Session led by Ophir Levy, film historian at the University of Paris III and trainer at the Shoah Memorial.
