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  1. Jul 10, 2020 · Based on Robert Seethaler’s best-selling novel, “The Tobacconist” makes for the sort of satisfying middlebrow art house-friendly movie that, in a time before COVID-19, would have done well ...

  2. Jul 10, 2020 · The Tobacconist: Directed by Nikolaus Leytner. With Simon Morzé, Bruno Ganz, Johannes Krisch, Emma Drogunova. Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler. A tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna....

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    • Drama, History, War
    • Nikolaus Leytner
    • 2020-07-10
  3. Jul 7, 2019 · The ‘smoking all hours’ cigar shop environment appears to be almost microcosmic of the fraught snapshot of history that’s captured so masterfully, and the film lures us into a satisfyingly cinematic Freudian slumber that you won’t want to wake up from.

  4. Sep 20, 2019 · Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A coming-of-age movie with charming characters, set in Austria. The threatening world quickly...

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    • Simon Morzé
    • Nikolaus Leytner
    • Drama
  5. Mar 24, 2020 · The film premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival in September 2018 and has had a very limited run around the world, playing mostly at Jewish film festivals. While the story involves a friendship between the central character and Sigmund Freud, I wouldn’t say that this is a Jewish film.

  6. “The Tobacconist”, released as “Der Traffikant” in Austria, wouldn’t be an especially noteworthy film if it didn’t feature one of the final performances of the late Bruno Ganz, who expertly sent shivers down everyone’s spines as a raving, despondent Hitler coming apart at the seams during the final days of the war he so eagerly ...

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  8. Short Review. While "The Tobacconist" is always watchable, its inability to find meaning in a mess of uncooked symbolism prevents the movie from being worthy of Freud, and from doing justice to his parting words.

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