In Detail

Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack and his wife who lived in a deep Polish forest. The poor woman moaned that she had no children. Day and night, trains passed through the woods.

One day, as the woman was watching a train that she thought was a cargo train, a package was thrown out and fell into the snow…

The film has an exquisite aesthetic, and director Hazanavicius pushes beyond the forest, into the train itself and in through the gates of the concentration camp, juxtaposing the beautiful visuals with the ugliness of mankind.

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