While All Germans Sleep
19951h 12min
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."
Storyline
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."
Released
July 31, 1995
Runtime
1h 12min
Director
Genre
Language
German
Production
ZDF, Novafilm, ARTE
Cast
Ilja Smoljanski
Julian
Robin Timptner
Itzek
Benjamin Kaatz
Marek
Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz
Mädchen
Christiane Hagedorn
Mareks Mutter
Mario Grünewald
Axel Werner
Gerry Wolff
Reiner Heise
Jürgen Hentsch
Narrator
Danne Hoffmann
Herman Lercher
Tilo Mandel
Michael Page
Gretel Schulze
Gerd Staiger
Stefania Staszewska
Szymon Szurmiej
Tadeusz Wojtych
Arno Wyzniewski
Sławomir Głazek
Żyd