Hovering between past trauma and the will to start life anew, tormented Holocaust immigrants face a reckoning of conscience in the haunted halls of a 1960s Jerusalem hostel.

A microcosm of the European lands they left behind, THE PRACHT INN is a somber home to those still dealing with enormous grief. Days are spent battling loneliness and boredom, while boisterous evening revelry fails to chase the ghosts away. The film’s emotional core rests on the shoulders of Manfred (Tzahi Grad), a widower who impels fellow residents (an ensemble of top Israeli actors) to keep alive their Yiddish mother tongue, and in doing so, the memories of the birthplace and loved ones from which they were separated. Their efforts to resist absorption in Israel are frowned upon by the cold, callous Jewish-German proprietress Mrs. Pracht (Michaela Eshet). Her insistence on order and discipline is all too familiar to former concentration camp inmates who now perceive freedom only in anarchy, an inner battle that will grow into a vengeful climax.

A mournful, at times darkly humorous, exquisitely rendered vision of an exiled world forged from tragedy, THE PRACHT INN is adapted from the novel Night after Night by award-winning Romanian-Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld.