Foreign Prayer (2017)

8.3/10 92 min History Drama

Overview

Nazi-occupied Crimea, 1944. A boy named Itzhak turns to Saide Arifova, a local Tatar Muslim woman, for help, explaining that he and a group of other Jewish orphans are hiding from the Nazis. Arifova faces a moral dilemma: should she try to help them or save herself by refusing? Despite the impending danger, she decides to protect the children by hiding them in plain sight, and disguising them as Tatars and adopting them into the local community.

Cast

Liliia Yatsenko

Saide Arifova

Akhtem Seitablaiev

Sebastian Anton

Shevket Seydametov

Elzara Batalova

Serhii Detiuk

Oleksandr Melnyk

Dmytro Saranskov

Serhii Dzialyk

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