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Director(s): Silvio Soldini
Belgium, Switzerland, taly
Year: 2025
Runtime: 123'
Drama
Sep 8
Based on the bestselling book “At the Wolf’s Table” by Italian author Rosella Postorino, THE TASTERS follows a group of women who were recruited by the SS in 1943 to make sure that the food being served to Hitler was not poisoned. Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters start to split into two factions: those loyal to Hitler and those who insist they aren’t Nazis, even as they risk their lives everyday for the Führer.
Why we like this film: In 2012, at the age of 95, shortly before her death, a woman named Margot Wölk revealed that she had been one of the young German women forced to taste Hitler's meals. No one had ever known about the existence of the food tasters. Margot Wölk was the only one among them to survive the end of the war. Her story inspired both the novel and the film. Although the Jewish content isn't immeidately obvious, it becomes revealed towards the end of the movie.