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- After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.
- With the natural splendour of Lac Léman as a back-drop, Le Mirage is the story of a woman who believes she can recapture her youth by rediscovering love... with no regard for the inescapable realities of life. Maria Tummler, still quite beautiful despite her fifty years, is suddenly possessed with a consuming passion for a young visiting American, a friend of her son. But neither Jeanne, her friend, nor Anna, her daughter and faithful confidante, have a right to know, even though the young girl can see the emotion in her mother's eyes and is delighted to witness the physical transformation seemingly taking place. Maria is prepared to live this miracle of resuscitated love to its very end, even as some signs of a strange physical weariness begin to invade her new-found sense of well-being.
- Stefan Zweig is one of the best-known writers that Austria has ever produced. The film traces his life as the son of Jewish parents in Vienna under the Habsburg monarchy and describes his work in the war archives during the First World War. He experienced the era of his most successful work in Salzburg. After the National Socialists seized power, his books were burned and could no longer be published by the German Insel Verlag. Zweig emigrated to London and later took British citizenship. Fearing internment, he eventually moved to the United States, and shortly thereafter to Brazil. In February 1942, at the height of National Socialist power in Europe, any political change seemed impossible. Branch, severely depressed, committed suicide. In a farewell letter, he asserted that the destruction of the "spiritual homeland of Europe" had exhausted his strength "through years of homeless wandering".