Foreign Prayer (2017)

Nazi-occupied Crimea, 1944. A boy named Itzhak turns to Saide Arifova, a local Tatar Muslim woman, for help, explaining that he and a group of other Jewish orphans are hiding from the Nazis. Arifova faces a moral dilemma: should she try to help them or save herself by refusing? Despite the impending danger, she decides to protect the children by hiding them in plain sight, and disguising them as Tatars and adopting them into the local community.

Released May 18, 2017 92 min None+

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Keywords: tmdb.tatars, tmdb.crimea, tmdb.soviet-repression

Watch Providers: Chai Flicks

Production Companies: Idas Film

Country: Ukraine
Production Countries: Georgia, Ukraine
Languages: Ukrainian