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The Tasters

Le Assaggiatrici

Silvio Soldini | 2025 | 123 MINS
Italy/Belgium/Switzerland | Subtitles
Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary real-life account, this film sees a group of women risk their lives as Hitler’s ‘food tasters’.

In Detail

Rosa Sauer (Elisa Schlott) flees her bombed-out Berlin apartment, moves in with her in-laws, all while her German soldier husband is fighting in Ukraine.

Not too far away in a forest surrounded by barbed wire is the "Wolf's Lair" - the Eastern Front military headquarters of Adolf Hitler. Rosa lands among a group of war-weary young women, long deprived of sufficient food, who are forcibly recruited by the SS as his food tasters, dining on abundant vegetarian delicacies three times a day. The extraordinary account by then 95-year-old Margot Wölk created a sensation when it first appeared in a Berlin tabloid more than a decade ago.

With support of the BFI Film Audience Network,
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