Flight Without End

The apparent true story of the author's friend Franz Tunda, a young ex officer of the Austro-Hungarian army and a veteran of WWI, who escapes captivity in Siberia and eventually also from service in the nascent Soviet Union's Red Army. He makes it back to his old country only to find that the old order that he grew up under has crumbled, and that he is a misfit in the new European order that has replaced the old structure. He finds himself an outsider in every context, attracted and disgusted in equal measure, by the values of the old world that he embodies, and therefore unable to accept the new ideological frame in which he is a captive. Flight Without End was written in Paris in 1927. It is perhaps Joseph Roth's most personal novel. This film will be a contemporary adaptation of the same story.