Movies: Writer

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The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to be” in Paris. Now 90-year-old, Paul Nizon grants insights into his life and work in a self-ironic, direct manne...

A short documentary about a reclusive writer....

After being for eleven years in the city, José António Baptista returned to his home village to focus on literature....

Documentary about the Austrian-American writer Charles Sealsfield...

An insight look into the curious life of the spanish novelist Ángel Vázquez with the city of Tangier in the background, as a second character portrayed....

In his exploration of the cultural dynamic between East and West, Adolf Muschg, the most significant Swiss writer since Frisch and Dürrenmatt, searched for the other in himself in order to understand otherness....

An elderly man is working tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. His name is Aharon Appelfeld, and he became one of the greatest Jewish writers of our time. Every day, through his murmuring voice and handwriting, the survivors,...

A short film homage to Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño for the Festival d'Art Independent PEPE SALES 2016....

An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy....

Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town....

Through the portrait of Emile Zola, the story of his literary and political journey, and in particular the Dreyfus affair, this documentary evokes the streets and society of late nineteenth-century Paris. Photographs and archival documents show how m...

A&E's long-running biography series takes a look at one of the 20th century's most emblematic figures, Ernest Hemingway. Through a collection of still photography, narration by granddaughter Mariel Hemingway, commentary from author A.E. Hotchner and ...

A writer struggles to overcome his writer's block....

After portraying the German writer in "W. G. Sebald. Der Ausgewanderte", Thomas Honickel decides to show places that played a role in Sebald's life, visiting around 50 places described by the writer and accompanied them with quotes from or reflection...

A forger is hired by a reclusive stranger who offers his life’s fortune if he can write him a suicide letter by midnight....

Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a poet, writer, publisher and playwright whose work has been associated with the Beat movement. Born and raised in New York City, she associated with poets such as Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac and Frank O’Hara, co-editing...

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This documentary focuses on the journey of Merton, a bohemian who went from communism to Catholicism before finding his calling as a monk cloistered in eastern Kentucky for 27 years. It also covers his writing career which examined spirituality, the...

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