Drama · Germany · 1995 · 1h 12m

While All Germans Sleep

Wenn alle Deutschen schlafen

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Director
Frank Beyer
Cast
Ilja Smoljanski as Julian Robin Timptner as Itzek Benjamin Kaatz as Marek Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz as Mädchen Christiane Hagedorn as Mareks Mutter Mario Grünewald as
Crew
Peter Ziesche — Director of Photography Helga Olschewski — Editor Jurek Becker — Writer Otto Meissner — Producer Nicolaus Richter — Producer Klaus Gotthardt — Producer
Synopsis

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."

Mood & Themes
holocaust (shoah)antisemitism
Key Collaborators
Frank Beyer Director Peter Ziesche Director of Photography Helga Olschewski Editor Jurek Becker Writer Otto Meissner Producer Nicolaus Richter Producer Klaus Gotthardt Producer Hanna Morawiecka Costume Design
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