schlomo the town lunatic comes running down the hills in alarm to tell the people of Nazis terrorising the neighbourhood village. When he delivers this terrible news the rabbi is quick to believe him and then the rest follow. After lot of intense arguing on how to carve their way out of this sticky situation they all agree upon building a deportation train that will take them to Palestine via Russia. The refurbishment of old rusty train surprisingly caused them hardly any trouble. Or people posing as Nazi was not much of their concern, the Mordechai plays the role of a pseudo Nazi convincingly. Encountering some hurdles here and there they still make a safe journey to Russia.
In the last scene schlomo talks about his friends and their rosy life, but he is cut mid sentence,when the camera zooms out and you see him behind the barbed wires in convicts clothes in a concentration camp. It was too good to be true after all!
the Jews making a safe journey was just a figment of his imagination which he created to survive the brutal and horrendous treatment of the concentration camp, to remain sane to still keep that tiny hope from dissolving. After all we all have fantasies of our own to keep depression at bay to have a better image of ourselves and our lives. We all some time or the other indulge in the 'what ifs'.
Schlomo couldn't escape from the clutches of the concentration camp so he found imagination as his only weapon for escaping.
In the last scene schlomo talks about his friends and their rosy life, but he is cut mid sentence,when the camera zooms out and you see him behind the barbed wires in convicts clothes in a concentration camp. It was too good to be true after all!
the Jews making a safe journey was just a figment of his imagination which he created to survive the brutal and horrendous treatment of the concentration camp, to remain sane to still keep that tiny hope from dissolving. After all we all have fantasies of our own to keep depression at bay to have a better image of ourselves and our lives. We all some time or the other indulge in the 'what ifs'.
Schlomo couldn't escape from the clutches of the concentration camp so he found imagination as his only weapon for escaping.
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