Ночь в Лиссабоне

1962 novel by Erich Maria Remarque

The Night in Lisbon (Die Nacht von Lissabon) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque published in 1962. It revolves around the plight of two German refugees in the opening months of World War II. One of the refugees relates their story during the course of a single night in Lisbon in 1942. The story he recounts is mainly a romantic one, and also contains a lot of action with arrests, escapes and near misses. The novel is realistic, Remarque was himself a German refugee (although the novel is fictional and only loosely based on the experience of Remarque's friend, novelist Hans Habe), and provides insight into refugee life in Europe during the early days of the war. The book completed what was known as Remarque's "emigre trilogy" along with Flotsam and Arch of Triumph. In a 1964 book review, Kirkus Reviews called the book "limp with romantic despair and frayed cynicism making the experience of dislocation and the concentration camps more acceptable to an audience which has avoided it before Remarque's old following will find that it has a certain urgency without perhaps pausing to wonder whether it is as real as it is readable." Charles Poore wrote in his review for The New York Times; "It is a brilliant novel and a strange one, not completely successful but hauntingly moving."

Director Zbyněk Brynych filmed the book in 1970/1971 for FRG, with the actors Martin Benrath, Erika Pluhar, Vadim Glowna, Horst Frank, Charles Régnier and others. FRG first showed the film on April 9, 1971. It was released on DVD in 2011, in a double DVD edition with a booklet in the "Big Stories" series.

With an original expected release for the end of 2023, a film based on The Night in Lisbon is being produced. Ian Stokell is the author of the screenplay and producer of the film.

In 2019, Radio Bremen and WDR produced a two part radio play edited and directed by Silke Hildebrandt with Max Simonischek, de, Christian Hockenbrink, Lisa Hrdina, Daniel Wiemer, Stefanie Kirsten, Wolfgang Rüter, Ursula Grossenbacher, Jasmin Schwiers, Jörg Kernbach, Justus Maier, Birte Schrein, Jean Paul Baek, Daniel Stock, and Holger Kraft.