In France 1940 an unlikely pair team up to evade the approaching Nazis. Little Jacobowsky a Polish Jewish intellectual has been one step ahead of the Nazis for years. Stjerbinsky is an aristocratic anti-Semitic Polish colonel who's trying to get to England. Jacobowsky has a car but can't drive; the colonel can. And so begins their adventurous journey – set against a backdrop of lively and lovely songs and dances – that takes them to a carnival a Jewish wedding and when the car breaks down onto a train. Accompanying them is Marianne the colonel's girlfriend with whom Jacobowsky falls in love. But it is not to be.
In France 1940 an unlikely pair team up to evade the approaching Nazis. Little Jacobowsky a Polish Jewish intellectual has been one step ahead of the Nazis for years. Stjerbinsky is an aristocratic anti-Semitic Polish colonel who's trying to get to England. Jacobowsky has a car but can't drive; the colonel can. And so begins their adventurous journey – set against a backdrop of lively and lovely songs and dances – that takes them to a carnival a Jewish wedding and when the car breaks down onto a train. Accompanying them is Marianne the colonel's girlfriend with whom Jacobowsky falls in love. But it is not to be.
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