Train of Life (1998)

Original title

Train de vie

Directed by

Radu Mihăileanu

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Israel, Romania, France, Netherlands

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

14

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 298 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Jewish village in Eastern Europe hears about the Nazi advance. The community decides to stage their own deportation by train to trick the Germans and escape to Palestine.

bittersweetabsurdhopefulsomberdarkly comicurgentreflectivetragicomic

What happens

Train of Life (in French Train de vie; in Romanian Trenul vieţii) is a 1998 tragicomedy film by France, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel and Romania made in the French language. It tells the story of an eastern European Jewish village's plan to escape the Holocaust. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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