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While All Germans Sleep (1995)

1h 12m Jul 31, 1995
Drama

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."

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Movie Details

Original Title Wenn alle Deutschen schlafen
Original Language DE
Status Released
Popularity 0.3

Cast

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Ilja Smoljanski
Julian
Popularity: 0.0
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Robin Timptner
Itzek
Popularity: 0.0
No Photo" alt="Benjamin Kaatz" class="cast-photo">
Benjamin Kaatz
Marek
Popularity: 0.0
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Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz
Mädchen
Popularity: 0.0
Christiane Hagedorn
Christiane Hagedorn
Mareks Mutter
Popularity: 2.3
No Photo" alt="Mario Grünewald" class="cast-photo">
Mario Grünewald
Popularity: 0.0
Axel Werner
Axel Werner
Popularity: 0.4
Gerry Wolff
Gerry Wolff
Popularity: 4.2
Reiner Heise
Reiner Heise
Popularity: 0.1
Jürgen Hentsch
Jürgen Hentsch
Narrator
Popularity: 3.8
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Danne Hoffmann
Popularity: 0.2
Herman Lercher
Herman Lercher
Popularity: 0.2

Key Crew

Editor Helga Olschewski
Writer Jurek Becker
Music Lorenzo Barcelata
Director Frank Beyer
Producer Otto Meissner, Nicolaus Richter, Klaus Gotthardt

Production

ZDF
DE
Novafilm
DE
ARTE
FR

Keywords

holocaust (shoah) antisemitism

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Details
Release Date July 31, 1995
Runtime 1h 12m
Language DE
Status Released
Popularity 0.3
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