Die Nacht von Lissabon

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based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque
In German | With Arabic surtitles on selected performance dates

An unconventional love story in times of the Second World War. Directed by Maxim Didenko, who will return to the NTM after his acclaimed stage adaptation of "Views of a Clown". 1942 at the port of Lisbon: this is where the ships departed for freedom. Here, thousands were desperately waiting for one of the rare tickets, trying to get hold of a visa and papers to escape fascism. Two men meet by chance on the quay. One wants to flee to America with his wife, but has neither passports nor tickets. The other has both and wants to leave them to the stranger - on the condition that he listens to his story before the ship leaves at dawn. Maxim Didenko takes the audience with the characters into the nightclubs and bars of Lisbon, where refugees and stranded people await an unlikely future. To the music of all their countries of origin, a narrative comes to life that is about love and betrayal, about hopeless hope and an insatiable hunger for life. It is the story of love during the Second World War, but it is also the story of flight and expulsion, which is still repeated today across all time and place boundaries. This content has been machine translated.