PREVIEW: Das kostbarste aller Güter

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• BE/FR 2024
• 81 min
• Director: Michel Hazanavicius
• FSK: from 12 years
• FBW rating especially valuable

Preview on Auschwitz Memorial Day

THE MOST COSTLY OF ALL GOODS is the screen adaptation by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius ("The Artist"), based on the bestseller of the same name by renowned French playwright and children's book author Jean-Claude Grumberg, who co-wrote the screenplay with Hazanavicius.

Poland in the winter of 1943: the wife of a woodcutter finds a baby in the snow near the railroad tracks. In an act of utter desperation, the child has been thrown from a moving train, a death train on its way to the Auschwitz extermination camp. Despite abject poverty and without thinking about the impending consequences, the childless woman takes the little girl into her care. From then on, this child - the most precious of all possessions - fundamentally changes the lives of the couple and all those whose paths it crosses. And some of them will do everything in their power to protect the girl, regardless of the risks to their own lives. His story will bring out the best and the worst in people.