A trailer has been released for The Forger, a film which plays at this year’s Berlinale, which kicks off in Berlin next week. The film comes to the screen from filmmaker Maggie Peren, and the trailer has debuted courtesy of Variety.
The cast includes Louis Hofmann, Jonathan Berlin, Luna Wedler, Nina Gummich, Marc Limpach, André Jung, and Yotam Ishay
The synopsis for the film is as follows.
21-year-old Cioma Schönhaus (Louis Hofmann) won’t let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. He wants to discover life, but has the misfortune of living as a Jewish person in Berlin in the 1940s. Since the best hiding spots are found in plain sight, Cioma decides to go out into the light to escape deportation. Using the identity of a marine officer he created for himself, he throws himself into the city’s nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. Throughout the day he forges IDs with just a brush, some ink and a steady hand – and saves the lives of many others. His talent puts him in more and more danger, though, and at some point Cioma’s only hope to survive is a last forged ID – with his own name on it.
The film plays in the Berlinale Special section of the festival, which plays in Berlin from 10th-16th February this year.
Here’s the trailer.
