The Austrian musician and author Reinhold Bilgeri produced and directed the film, which is based on his 2005 historic novel of the same name. The events in the movie are based on the worst avalanche catastrophe in Alpine history.
1939년 독일의 침공을 받은 폴란드를 배경으로, 역사적 사실에 근거한 전쟁 드라마. 1939년 폴란드 바르샤바, 독일이 폴란드를 침공하고 폴란드는 한달도 못가서 항복을 선언한다. 독일군은 바르샤바에 있는 유태인들을 게토로 옮기고 그들을 철저히 격리되고 감시당한다. 배고픔으로 처참한 생활을 하던 유태인들의 분노는 더해가고 젊은이들을 중심으로 혁명의 싹이 트기 시작한다. 유태교 평의회의장 체르니라코브는 유태인들의 생명을 지키고 권익을 찾기 위해 노력하지만 역부족이다. 그의 운전기사를 하고 있는 카직과 팔레스타인으로 탈출하려다가 붙잡혀 다시 게토로 돌아온 다혈질의 모데카이, 그리고 그의 친구 이작은 무기를 모으고 독일에 대항하기로 결심한다.
A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the starting point for the Jewish Holcaust which led to the mass murder of six million people.
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
A boy returns home from school, goes upstairs into his father's room where he steals sugared and dried figs out of his dad's chest of drawers. In spite of some remorse, he does not confess it to his father.
When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
