[HIGHLIGHTS] 'The Passenger': The meeting between victim and executioner

Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) was a Jewish and Polish composer. He took refuge in the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II.

Weinberg was also persecuted there as a Jew and a foreigner. The libretto is by Alexander Medvedev and is a version of a novel by Zofia Posmysz. A hot drama about the meeting on a luxury liner, heading to Brazil in the sixties, of a surviving victim of Auschwitz and his guard in the extermination camp.