A film by Peter Payer, Austria/Luxembourg 2007
(In German with English subtitles, 90 min.)

Free to Leave is a story about guilt and lies: in a small village a kiss between station master Thomas Hudetz and student Anna results in a terrible accident that wipes out many lives and, at the same time, causes the lives of the people involved to go awry. The guilt and lies they share drive Thomas and Anna into an obsessive love that changes lives dramatically – not just theirs.
Free to Leave is based on Ödön von Horváth’s play Judgement Day (1937) which director Peter Payer has transposed into a modern relationship context where all balance is destroyed by the power of fate. www.freigesprochen.com

February 22 | 7:30 pm | Embassy of Austria
Free admission. RSVP required: 202-895-6776 or rsvp@austria.org