Every meal could be their last.
In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of tasters responsible for checking that the food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20266/10
“Rosa” (Elisa Schlott) has recently arrived at her in-laws home in Eastern Prussia keen to hear news of her husband who is fighting on the Russian front, when there is a knock at the door. A soldier demands that she accompany him deep into the adjacent forest where they know Adolf Hitler has his “Lion’s Den”. Altogether, there are seven women and all are initially perplexed as their mission seems only to sit at a table and eat meals that the rest of the nation would give their eye teeth for. What’s going on? Well their chef (Boris Aljinovic) enlightens them. They are tasting the food prepared in his kitchen before it is sent up to the dining room of the Austrian corporal himself. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that information serves as quite an appetite suppressant but the oppressive “Lt. Ziegler” (Max Riemelt) soon cracks down on any reluctant diners. He also takes a shine to “Rosa” and soon the pair are quite literally rolling in the hay and she is learning something of a man with quite an heinously recent past. The other ladies don’t immediately take to “Rosa” as she is from Berlin and so they think she has something of a superiority complex. Except, perhaps, for “Elfriede” (Alma Hasu
Read the whole review on TMDB - MovieGuyson TMDB · Sep 20257/10
"The Tasters" tells the fascinating but tragic story of the young women tasked with tasting Fascist leader Adolf Hitlers food, to ensure it was not tampered with or poisoned. Whilst based on fact, this film take's a good number of creative liberties. Only one woman lived to tell her story at age 95, the other young tasters allegedly shot, by the advancing Russian army during world war II. The simple human norm of a shared meal is upended, in a way that's psychologically unsettling and physically oppressive. These women have no choice but to eat a sample of the food prepared by a chef, for Hitler or face threats of immediate violence, if they refuse.Not to mention possible death if the food has in fact, been tampered with.It may be wonderful food but no one can enjoy it. What this demonstrates, is the true dehumanising cost of totalitarianism.The life of a group of young women, some with families, is repeatedly subordinated and put at risk, to the benefit of one middle aged dictator. In summary, this is a rather unique film that takes the familiar and subverts it, in a deeply disturbing way. Most definitely worth a look.
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Cast
- Elisa SchlottRosa
- Max RiemeltZiegler
- Alma HasunElfriede
- Emma FalckLeni
- Olga von LuckwaldHeike
- Thea RascheAugustine
- Berit VanderUlla
- Kriemhild HamannSabine
- Esther GemschHerta
- Jürgen WinkJoseph
Crew
- Silvio SoldiniDirector
- Doriana LeondeffScreenplay
- Silvio SoldiniScreenplay
- Cristina ComenciniScreenplay
- Rosella PostorinoNovel
- Renato BertaDirector of Photography
- Carlotta CristianiEditor
- Giorgio GariniEditor
- Lionello CerriProducer
- Cristiana MainardiProducer
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