2025 · drama · history · music
The Tasters
Directed by Silvio Soldini2h 3m2025
In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of tasters responsible for checking that the food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.
Our read: The Tasters (2025) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · history · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
Watching The Tasters tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How The Tasters feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a restrained WWII drama about the women who tasted Hitler's food for poison.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if quiet historical tension in Nazi Germany isn't your idea of escape.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like The Tasters, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →