In the 1930s, the philosopher Walter Benjamin and his friend, the playwright Bertolt Brecht, spent time together in exile in America. In this film, they are still in exile, but they live today, or rather in New York in 2017. In the intervening years, they have changed. Because in today's world, refugees and victims of racism look different. Brecht is Iranian. Benjamin is African-American. "Exile" is an essay film that incorporates drama, archive material and documentary scenes in which connections are made between the fascism of the 1930s and what is currently going on in America.
With: Afshin Hashemi, Eric Berryman, Paul Lazar, Marie Pohl - Cinematography: Eric Muzzy
Duration: 51 minutes

The literature program of the Brecht Festival was realized with the kind support of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
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