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Train of Life is a french film of genre Drama directed by Radu Mihaileanu released in USA on 16 september 1998 with Lionel Abelanski
Train of Life (1998)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 16 september 1998
Length 1h43
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
OriginFrance
Themes French war films, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Transport films, La culture tzigane, Rail transport films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Film se déroulant dans un train
Rating75%
Train of Life (in French Train de Vie, in Romanian Trenul vieţii) is a tragicomedy film by France, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel and Romania made in 1998 in the French language. It tells the story of an eastern European Jewish village's plan to escape the Holocaust.
Synopsis
The movie starts off with a man, named Schlomo (Lionel Abelanski), running crazily through a forest, with his voice playing in the background, saying that he has seen the horror of the Nazis in a nearby town, and he must tell the others. Once he gets into town, he informs the rabbi, and together they run through the town and once they have got enough people together, they hold a town meeting. At first, many of the men do not believe the horrors they are being told, and many criticize Schlomo, for he is the town lunatic, and who could possibly believe him? But the rabbi believes him, and then they try to tackle the problem of the coming terrors. Amidst the pondering and the arguing, Schlomo suggests that they build a train, so they can escape by deporting themselves. Some of their members pretend to be Nazis in order to ostensibly transport them to a concentration camp, when in reality, they are going to Palestine via Russia. Thus the Train of Life is born.Actors
Lionel Abelanski
(Shlomo)
Rufus
(Mordechai)
Agathe de La Fontaine
(Esther)
Michel Muller (humoriste)
(Yossi)
Clément Harari
(Rabbi)
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