Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer
Based on the bestselling book of the same name, "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" (2024) follows the true account of Lali Sokolov, a young Slovak Jewish man forced into one of the camp's most unbearable roles during the Second World War.
What is The Tattooist Of Auschwitz about?
The mini-series moves between two timelines: Lali's imprisonment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where camp authorities assign him the task of marking incoming prisoners with identification numbers, and decades later, when an older Lali living in Melbourne finally begins to share his story with a writer. Inside the camp, his position gives him a narrow, fragile margin of movement compared to other prisoners, and it is there that he meets Gita, a woman whose presence becomes the thread that carries him through the following years. The later-life timeline shows how memory works on a survivor long after liberation, what gets told, what gets withheld, and why a person might wait a lifetime before speaking. Rather than dwelling on spectacle, the series is built around small human exchanges under extreme constraint, and around the discipline of a witness account being carefully reconstructed for the record.
Cast & crew
Jonah Hauer-King plays the younger Lali with a controlled physicality suited to the character's constant calculation of risk, while Harvey Keitel appears as the elderly Lali recounting events to a writer decades on. Melanie Lynskey plays that writer, and Anna Próchniak plays Gita, with Jonas Nay in a supporting role. Director Tali Shalom-Ezer holds the tone steady across both timelines without leaning on excess.
Context & significance
The series adapts Heather Morris's 2018 novel, itself drawn from recorded interviews with the real Lali Sokolov late in his life, and it arrived in 2024 as a UK production with an international cast. Reviewers and audiences have generally responded to its restraint, reflected in an IMDb rating of 8.0, treating the underlying history with care rather than turning it into pure spectacle.
Where & how to watch
"The Tattooist of Auschwitz" can be watched on K-Time after a free account login, with the page itself open to read without any sign-up required. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available, and K-Time's Farsi-language interface is built for Persian-speaking viewers who want a native-language experience with this kind of historical drama.