29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (07.11-23.11.2025)
A Spanish customs officer risks everything to help Jews escape Nazi-occupied France across the Pyrenees.
Year 1943. Franco has blocked the path of refugees fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the Jews across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jerôme, a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. It is then that Manel finds himself caught up in a dangerous odyssey that will awaken old ghosts from the still recent Spanish Civil War in him and his wife Mercè.
The film premiered at the Valladolid Film Festival.
29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (07.11-23.11.2025)
A Spanish customs officer risks everything to help Jews escape Nazi-occupied France across the Pyrenees.
Year 1943. Franco has blocked the path of refugees fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the Jews across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jerôme, a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. It is then that Manel finds himself caught up in a dangerous odyssey that will awaken old ghosts from the still recent Spanish Civil War in him and his wife Mercè.
The film premiered at the Valladolid Film Festival.
A Spanish customs officer risks everything to help Jews escape Nazi-occupied France across the Pyrenees.
Year 1943. Franco has blocked the path of refugees fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the Jews across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jerôme, a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. It is then that Manel finds himself caught up in a dangerous odyssey that will awaken old ghosts from the still recent Spanish Civil War in him and his wife Mercè.
The film premiered at the Valladolid Film Festival.
Info
Rating
-
Production year
2025
Global distributor
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Local distributor
Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ
In cinema
11/9/2025