The Passenger

July. 01,2022

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Drama Music

Keywords：

Holocaust (shoah)

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family's ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz's autobiographical novel.

Will Hartmann as Walter

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