The City and the City

The City and the City

2022 · 87 min · ★ 3.0 · Drama, Documentary

Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity.

Directed by Hristos Passalis

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