While All Germans Sleep (1995)

7.0/10 72 min Drama

Overview

After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 – a few days before their evacuation to Auschwitz – to go get the toys they forgot at the ghetto. Based on Becker's personal memories and his 1980 short story "The Wall."

Cast

Christiane Hagedorn

Mareks Mutter

Axel Werner

Gerry Wolff

Reiner Heise

Jürgen Hentsch

Narrator

Herman Lercher

Gerd Staiger

Stefania Staszewska

Szymon Szurmiej

Tadeusz Wojtych

Arno Wyzniewski

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