Benjamin's Crossing

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Soon to be a motion picture starring Colin Firth and directed by Pat O'Connor.

The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini.

It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin the German-Jewish critic and philosopher has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains his precious manuscript of a thousand handwritten pages, he sets off for the border and is led by chance to a young anti-Nazi who is taking Jews and other refugees over the Pyrenees into Spain, where they may (with luck) make their way to freedom in Portugal or South America.