Annette Kolb

Based on Annette Kolb’s autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Catholic family overflowing with artistry but short on practicalities like financial acumen.

The Bavarian writer Annette Kolb fought for positive French-German relations, women's rights, and the independence of the arts, before fleeing Hitler’s Germany out of loyalty to her many Jewish friends.