After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.
Acting
Silberschneider's eyes contain multitudes of unspeakable grief
Direction
Corti's restrained hand makes horror feel ordinary, which is worse
Writing
Every visa stamp feels like a death sentence deferred
Director
Axel Corti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
First of Corti's 'Where To and Back' trilogy; Austrian TV funded this raw reckoning with complicity that mainstream cinema avoided for decades.
That Marseille harbor final shot—Corti held it so long the projectionist once called the booth thinking the film broke. It's just despair, sir.
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