Irina Potapenko was born in 1986 in Krim, Soviet Union. She is an actress, known for Revanche (2008), Princess (2006) and Anduni - Fremde Heimat (2011).
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.