While All Germans Sleep

While All Germans Sleep

1995
1h 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."

While All Germans Sleep

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
    31 July 1995
    Runtime
    1h 12min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    German
    Production
    ZDF, Novafilm Fernsehproduktion, ARTE
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