Atlanta Jewish Film Festival – The Tasters

Set in 1943 East Prussia, this taut psychological thriller blends fact and fiction as a young Berliner is coerced into Hitler’s secret circle of food tasters, where each meal could be their last. Fleeing bombed-out Berlin, Margot Wölk (a quietly commanding Elisa Schlott) is conscripted with other women into the Wolf’s Lair, forced to test meals for poison meant for the Führer. Their days become an unnerving cycle of dread, uneasy alliances, and simmering rivalries under a regime that treats them as disposable. As fear, hunger, and a risky bond with a watchful SS officer erode her footing, Margot confronts a deepening moral crisis with no clear escape. Adapted from Rosella Postorino’s bestselling novel, this chilling descent into tyranny and complicity builds toward an inexorable emotional reckoning.