April 11, 2009
Superb film.
Bruno Abraham-Kremor, Clément Harari, Lionel Abelanski
It is 1941, the year 5701 of creation, and Shlomo, the village idiot, breathlessly announces the news: The Nazis are coming, and all will be sent to the death camps. As the rabbi and the wise men of t...( read more
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October 4, 2009'God created man to his own image.. - laughs- it's nice! Shlomo the image of God, but who did write this in the Torah? The Man, not God. The Man!
He wrote it without modesty comparing himself to God.
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April 24, 2009The story of a group of jews escaping from ocupied France during the II World War.
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March 5, 2009It combines the humour that would come from a Wilder movie, with the funny plot of Jewishes trying to look like Nazis but asking for kosher food, and accused by their own partners of being Nazis, but after the discussion they all pray together. In this fake deportation train, eve...( read more)
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February 11, 2009This film is really great. Rufus, who plays Mordechai, is so powerful in his role as a Jewish "being a Nazi". This picture will stay in my memory for a while. It was very touching yet full of humor.
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January 19, 2009Splendido ed esilarante, amaro e terribile. La scena più bella è l'incontro musicale degli ebrei in fuga con gli zingari in fuga... Un capolavoro nella filmografia sulla Shoa.
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March 10, 2008It s farce but touching. Besides it has my favorite composer Goran Bregovic in it:)
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January 29, 2008I've changed my rating from 4 to 5 stars after having seen it for the third time. The more I see it, the more I love it. I think it's the best film about holocaust (yes, better than La vita è bella, for example), because it's just original and a new way of making people think abo...( read more)
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