Train of Life

Train of Life in French Train de Vie, in Romanian Trenul vieii is a tragicomedy film by France, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel and Romania made in 1998 in the French language. It tells the story of an eastern European Jewish villages plan to escape the Holocaust.

On their escape route through rural Eastern Europe, the train sees tensions between its inhabitants, close encounters with real Nazis as well as Communist partisans, and fraternization with gypsies, until the community arrives just at the frontlines between German and Soviet fire.The movie ends with the voiceover of Schlomo himself, who tells the stories of his companions after the arrival of the train in the Soviet Union Some went on to Palestine, some stayed in the Soviet Union, and some even made it to America. As he is telling this, a cut to a closeup of his face happens as he says, That is the true story of my shtetl..., but then the camera makes a quick zoomout, revealing him grinning and wearing prisoners clothes behind the barbed wire of a concentration camp, and he ends with, Ye nu, almost the true story Thus, it is implicated that he became mad because of having seen most of his companions exterminated, having made up the whole story for himself in his lunacy. ........

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