Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and Dana Vávrová, Based on a true story, April 1943 and the “last of the Jews” are being “evacuated” from Berlin. They are locked in cattle cars with no food and little water. En route from Berlin to a German death camp in Auschwitz, two unlikely Jewish allies — a rough-and-tumble former boxer and the son of wealthy parents– remember happier times while plotting action against their Nazi captors. As well as the unsparing realism with which the brutality of a transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
