Les fantômes (2024)
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Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter, Hala Rajab
A Syrian poetry professor joins a clandestine group in Germany to pursue war criminals hiding in Europe, including the torturer he has never seen.
The story
Hamid, a poetry professor, leaves Syria and joins a secret organization in Germany that tracks Syrian war criminals hiding in Europe. In Strasbourg, he searches for the torturer who subjected him to abuse in Saidnaya prison, though he has never seen the man’s face. Yara, a former medical student in Syria who now runs a tailor shop in Strasbourg, gives Hamid a lead on Sami Hanna, identified as the man who beat him and other civilian prisoners. The article also says Hanna studies chemistry in Strasbourg under the name Harfaz.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Hamid, a poetry professor, leaves Syria to join a secret organization in Germany that tracks down Syrian war criminals hiding in Europe. He wanders around Strasbourg, searching for his torturer, whose face he has never seen and who subjected him to torture in Saidnaya prison. Yara, who studied medicine in Syria but runs a tailor shop in Strasbourg, gives him a tip about where to find Sami Hanna, the man who brutally beat him and other civilian prisoners every week. Under the name Harfaz, he studies chemistry in Strasbourg.
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