The Bernese Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) one morning encounters a woman standing on the Kirchenfeld Bridge. He narrowly prevents her from jumping and brings her with him to the ...

Bille August, now in his mid-60s, makes films for the aging genteel — perhaps a shrewd choice, demographically, as our great many boomers march ahead into antiquity. His latest, Night Train to Lisbon, ...

Bille August has boarded “Night Train to Lisbon,” an adaptation of Pascal Mercier’s bestselling novel and the first co-production from a new partnership between Zurich-based C-Films and Studio Hamburg ...

In Swiss novelist Mercier's U.S. debut, Raimund Gregorius is a gifted but dull 57-year-old high school classical languages teacher in Switzerland. After a chance meeting with a Portuguese woman in the ...

Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss teacher, abandons his lessons and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.

Pascal Mercier. Grove. 496 pages. $25. "This novel taps into some of the oldest veins of story, the primal ones of night journeys, of being stuck in place, yet adrift, and confused about life's ...