The Birdcatcher

The Birdcatcher

Inspired by true events

201997 min5.5 / 10

A tense, melancholic survival drama centered on a young Jewish girl's isolation and hidden identity during Nazi occupation, grounded in historical trauma and the fragile bonds that sustain her.

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.

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