Kurt and Lydia are planning a relaxed vacation at the Gripsholm castle in Sweden . What Lydia does not know is that for Kurt, a well-known publicist, the journey is actually a flight from encroaching fascism and a direct threat from the Nazis.
Acting
Ulrich Noethen's suppressed panic beneath charming surface.
Cinematography
Gripsholm castle as character — idyllic prison of light.
Director
Xavier Koller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Kurt Tucholsky's 1931 novel, written under pseudonym while he was already in exile from Germany. Director Xavier Koller spent months securing permission to shoot at the actual Gripsholm castle.
Tucholsky died by suicide in 1935, making this film's 1932 setting unbearably proximate to real tragedy. The novel's original Swedish title 'Schloss Gripsholm' preserves Tucholsky's deliberate German — he wrote it as love letter to a country he couldn't keep.
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