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(1998)Directed by Radu Mihăileanu103 minDrama, Comedy, War

In 1941, word reaches a small Jewish village in Central Europe that the Nazis are coming, and the villagers settle on a plan to build their own deportation train and ride it toward Palestine. Radu Mihăileanu gathers the village around the scheme: Shlomo (Lionel Abelanski), the village fool who came up with it, and Mordechai (Rufus), cast as the German commandant. Shlomo has to hold everyone together and keep the lie convincing.