Few films can pull at the heartstrings quite like a powerful wartime drama , and Desperate Journey , directed by Annabel Jankel, is the latest to hit the silver screen.

Based on the true story and memoir of the same name by Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller, the thriller follows a young Jewish teenager (played by rising star Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen) who is forced to flee his family and home in Vienna for Paris when the Nazis invaded during the Second World War.

© Alan West/Hogan Media Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen at the premiere for Desperate Journey

Stranded in 1940s Paris, he is left with no money and the urgent need for papers. Freddie soon takes a job at a notorious burlesque club that is frequented by a series of high-ranking Nazi officers.

His situation complicates itself fur

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