58 European films to tempt festival directors in 2022

Drama. Sofia 1943.  Otto Greenberg (portrayed by Samuel Fintzi), Jewish on his father’s side, is a decorated German military veteran (WW1) on exile. Having been deported on Christmas eve 1938, Otto spent some time traveling eastern Europe until marrying a Bulgarian woman and settling down in Sofia., He  is determined to save a wounded 16-year-old Jewish girl, who jumped off the train from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz, after stabbing a Nazi officer. Meanwhile, Otto develops an intimate relationship with the  German-Jewish physician escaped from Dresden to Sofia.