A heartbreaking, bittersweet farce about the holocaust. In French and German. Filmed in Romania.
In 1941, after being alerted by the village fool of an imminent German invasion, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine through Russia. Some Jews are dressed up with German uniforms, and soon they start getting strange ideas about how it feels to be a Nazi; others are infected with the fast-spreading germ of communism. Meanwhile, the Russian border gets closer and closer.
7.6 at IMDb.
Only 64% on the tomatometer, but 93% on the popcorn meter.
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