A Trip to Swadades

A Trip to Swadades

The past is like a man whistling sayonara.

2008 · 65 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

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.

Directed by Daniel Kremer · Written by Daniel Kremer

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Robert Swenson Schweitzer Haas
Glenn Walsh Ezra Haas
Stephen Hatzai Claude Schoonover
Kenneth McGregor Dooby
Katya Quinn-Judge Woman in Dream
William Cully Allen Grocer

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