Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

• ORF
• Idéale Audience
• Josef Hader
• Barbara Sukowa
• Aenne Schwarz
• Matthias Brandt
• Charly Hübner
• André Szymanski
• Nicolau Breyner
• Lenn Kudrjawizki