Jul 31, 1995
72 min
Full-HD

While All Germans Sleep (1995)

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."

Category

Drama

Country

Germany

Companies

ZDF Novafilm ARTE

Ilja Smoljanski

Julian

Robin Timptner

Itzek

Benjamin Kaatz

Marek

Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz

Mädchen

Christiane Hagedorn

Mareks Mutter

Mario Grünewald

Axel Werner

Gerry Wolff

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