This is a handsome and old-fashioned sort of war movie , which covers very familiar ground, from its depictions of the rising tide of Nazism, to the Cabaret -esque Parisian nightlife scene, to the French Resistance, to the horrors of Auschwitz. All these elements of World War II iconography have been told elsewhere, a little more elegantly, a little less generically. But you can’t fault the sincerity of the storytelling from director Annabel Jankel — whose erratic filmography includes the 1993 Bob Hoskins-starring Super Mario Brothers movie — or a very game cast.

Based on the memoir of Auschwitz survivor Freddie Knoller, the story it tells is both an extraordinary one and one repeated countless times during the war. Freddie (Danish actor Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen) is an ordinary,

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