Desc: Stefan Zweig - Histoire d'un européen: Directed by François Busnel, Jean-Pierre Devillers. The February 22, 1942, Stefan Zweig and his wife, Lotte, commit suicide in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis. How is it possible that the most read Austrian writer of his generation, who experienced a brilliant success in life, decided to "consciously" end it? The biography of a tormented genius; one of the first intellectuals to defend the idea of a cosmopolitan Europe without borders.