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"Train of Life"
1998
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu

In a bold, seemingly impossible attempt to escape death at the hands of the Nazis, the citizens of a small Jewish village in central Europe decide to fake their own deportation to a concentration camp, riding a train they hope will carry them to freedom in Russia. A moving comic fable that uses warm humor without diminishing the backdrop of the Holocaust. "Rollicking...has the bursting energy of Fiddler on the Roof" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times). French with English subtitles.  103 minutes.