Train of Life
(1998)
★ 7.3 IMDb · 302 votes
Year: 1998
Runtime: 103 мин
Country: Belgium, Israel
Director: Radu Mihăileanu
Cast: Lionel Abelanski, Рюфюс, Clément Harari, Agathe de La Fontaine, Мишель Мюллер, Johan Leysen, Bruno Abraham-Kremer, Gad Elmaleh, Marie-José Nat, Serge Kribus
Plot
In 1941, 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.
Central Europe, WWII. The village fool of a small Jewish community warns the townsfolk that the Nazis are coming, and advises them to build a fake deportation train to cross the Russian border and get to Palestine. 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...