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Falsch

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Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

Bruno Cremer, Jacqueline Bollen, Nicole Colchat, Christian Crahay, Millie Dardenne, Berangere Dautun, John Dobrynine, Andre Lenaerts, Christian Maillet, Jean Mallamaci, Gisele Oudart, Mare-Rose Roland, François Sikivie

Just before twilight a four engined plane lands on the runway of a country airport… The plane comes to a halt. One passenger disembarks : Joe, the last survivor of a jewish family, the Falsches. He has an appointment with them all tonight, forty years after leaving Berlin for New York in 1938. They are all in the arrival lounge of the airport. The father, the mother, the small sister, the elder brothers and his wife, the aunt, all of whom had perished in concentration camps. Botj twin brothers, who left with him in 1938. Uncle Ruben and his wife Natalia, who went to England in 1938 and returned, after a short stay in Palestine, to die in Berlin during the reconstruction years. Lilli, a young German girl, is here too; she is the daughter of a Nazi official, who was the love of Joe’s youth, and who died during the bombing of Berlin.
A night of encounters, of celebrations beyond life and death.

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