Les Émigrantes - Krystian Lupa (Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe)

Feature Film / Play
Director of photography: Nikodem Marek, Director: Krystian Lupa, Postproduction: Natan Berkowicz

‘After having directed Broch, Musil, Bernhard, and Kafka, Krystian Lupa engages with W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants. In this hypnotic tale at a crossroads between fiction and documentary, the German author recreates the life of four men he has known, and who have all gone through exile and been permanently affected by it. Their intimate reverie, that unfolds in a text akin to a long prose poem; the stretching of time, that becomes a palpable duration; the unique density of his writing: everything, in Sebald’s work, resonates with Lupa’s universe and his work with his actors, based on conjuring their inner landscapes.’

Coproduction Festival d'Avignon, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Triennale de Milan, Maillon - Théâtre de Strasbourg scène européenne