DESERT FILM SOCIETY presents The Last Mentsch

Marcus has denied his Jewish heritage all his life. Even after surviving the horrors of Auschwitz he sought to forget the trauma by creating a new identity for himself in Germany, one without Jewish friends or ties. Now faced with his own mortality, he decides he wants to be buried in a Jewish cemetery but much to his dismay, his word is not enough for the rabbis … he must prove that he is, in fact, Jewish. His only hope is to return to the Hungarian village where he grew up to find proof of his birth. In order to get there, he engages a young Turkish woman to drive him. The improbable duo set out on a road trip across Europe that will end up irrevocably changing them both.