Train of Life

Train of Life

1998103 min7.3 / 10

A darkly comedic yet deeply humanistic story of a Jewish village's collective act of resistance and survival, balancing absurdist humor with the weight of historical tragedy.

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.

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