Film

A Trip to Swadades

The past is like a man whistling sayonara.

7.0

1h 5m

2008

“The past is like a man whistling sayonara.”

Synopsis

Shot on black-and-white super-16mm, A Trip to Swadades tells the story of a 74-year-old ex-professor named Schweitzer Haas who, after many years of living away from Philadelphia, the city where he came of age, returns to visit his hermit brother Ezra who has perfected his freakish steel-trap memory. As a result, however, his apartment has become an unlivable and unsanitary place. He goes out to find some cleaning supplies, only to find himself lost in a city he no longer knows. By shear happenstance, he bumps into an old friend, a world-class cut-up, who takes him to a place of importance to their past. There, Schweitzer realizes he must reconcile with the brother he has not spoken to and has refused to understand for most of his life.

Director

Daniel Kremer

Drama

Cast & Crew

Robert Swenson

as Schweitzer Haas

Glenn Walsh

as Ezra Haas

Stephen Hatzai

as Claude Schoonover

Kenneth McGregor

as Dooby

Katya Quinn-Judge

as Woman in Dream

William Cully Allen

as Grocer

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