Film

A Trip to Swadades

2008 · 1h 5m · Drama

The past is like a man whistling sayonara.

IMDb

8.1

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.

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

• Daniel KremerDirector · Writer
• Aaron HollanderDirector of Photography

Release date

May 23, 2008

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 5m

Genres

Drama