Patience. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1995 book, The Rings of Saturn
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The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald, 1995
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Grant Gee, 2012

Retracing the steps taken by W.G. Sebald (1944–2001) in his ground-breaking book ‘The Rings of Saturn’, this documentary offers a unique exploration of the work and influence of the internationally acclaimed writer.


The Natural History of Destruction. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1999 book, On the Natural History of Destruction
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On the Natural History of Destruction
W.G. Sebald, 1999
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Sergei Loznitsa, 2022

Based on the book by German writer W.G. Sebald, examines the perception and processing of the phenomenon of mass destruction of the German civilian population in European post-war literature.


Austerlitz. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald, 2001
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Stan Neumann, 2015

I opened a book: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald. In it I met Jacques Austerlitz, an amateur photographer, a compulsive collector of all kinds of images, an art historian with unusual ideas and an obsession with 19th-century monumental architecture. I followed him, page by page, from Antwerp to London, from Paris to Marienbad, from Prague to the Terezin Ghetto, in search of the buried childhood secret.