"Why did you become the fool?" "Well, I wanted to be a rabbi, but the place was already occupied ..." Radu Mihaileanu masterpiece is full of jokes and witty withering. When
Slojme hears anti-Semitic persecution has a brilliant idea, crazy as only a madman can hope to have: moving to Palestine with all citizens, embarking on a fake deportation train. In the words of De André, behind every idiot there is a village, and each component of this composite universe excites us with its peculiarities: the rabbi and his son, a contracting gastritis, the beautiful and nasty, and the tailor. Transvestite
some neighbors from the Nazis, the train goes on a long journey of hope, guided by a driver and improvised by the desire for freedom and dignity.
The tragedy is inevitable, but full of irony that so poignantly elaborates Yiddish for centuries sadness and melancholy of a wandering people, and we ride on gently surreal and heartfelt affection.
Why tell the genocide through a long dream? Why this dream becomes a form in a rational concept of our personal memory engram instead of immobilizing a chain, the fairy tale, whose heart revolves around the question " who cares if God exists, there is the man? "allows us to answer that yes, there is the MAN, all capital, which is looked after, cared for, loved every day, except that memory allows us to do so, as our design-going-on the shoulders of giants who attempted a dream before us, even when they knew they could not succeed.
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