This subtly filmed adaptation of the novel "The Bookshop" by British author Penelope Fitzgerald celebrates the love of literature: Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) lost her husband at an early age, but her shared love of books of all kinds will not let her go. She invests her entire fortune in realizing her dream of opening her own bookshop - in dreamy Hardborough, England, of all places, at the end of the 1950s, where the workers are sceptical about reading books and the aristocracy vigorously dictates what is high culture and what is not. But despite all the resistance, she is successful and progressive, polarizing works such as Nabokov's Lolita or Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 soon find favour with the villagers. Above all, Mr. Brundish (Bill Nighy), who has lived in seclusion for a long time, takes a liking to the new bookshop and its owner. But Florence Green's gentle cultural revolution does not go unnoticed: the old-established gray eminence Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson) fears a loss of control in her home village. She tries with all her might to put obstacles in Florence's way and the two women begin a confrontation about modernity and convention.

Free admission, admission: from 18:30
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Carolin Schönle, who has been running our neighborhood bookstore "Der Divan" for years, will talk to us about the difficulties and the beauty of this profession, what it's like to keep a bookstore afloat today and what people in Westend are reading.

Audio language: English, subtitles: German.