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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...