Train of Life
Sep 16 1998
•2h 43m
•Drama, Comedy, War
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
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Lionel Abelanski
Shlomo
Rufus
Mordechai
Clément Harari
Rabbi
Agathe de La Fontaine
Esther
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