THE FINAL JOURNEY

by Nick Baker-Monteys (Leanders Letzte Reise, Allemagne, 2017, 1h45, vostf)

starring Jürgen Prochnow, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Tambet Tuisk

Upon the death of his wife, 92-year-old Eduard Leander refuses to end his days in a retirement home. Instead, he decides to board a train, followed by his granddaughter Adèle, and head for Ukraine where, as a Wehrmacht officer in the Second World War, he fought the Russians alongside the Cossacks and also had a passionate love affair. But will he succeed in finding the woman he loved in that country ravaged by civil war?