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While All Germans Sleep (1995)
Directed by Frank Beyer
Drama · 1h 12m
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
Axel Werner
Gerry Wolff
Reiner Heise
Jürgen Hentsch
Herman Lercher
Crew
- Director
- Frank Beyer
- Writer
- Jurek Becker
- Director of Photography
- Peter Ziesche
- Editor
- Helga Olschewski
- Producer
- Otto Meissner, Nicolaus Richter, Klaus Gotthardt
Details
- Original title
- Wenn alle Deutschen schlafen
- Release date
- 1995-07-31
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- ZDF, Novafilm, ARTE