Movie

While All Germans Sleep (1995)

• July 31, 1995
• 1h 12m

• Drama

Overview

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."

Director

Frank Beyer

Writers

Jurek Becker

Starring

Ilja Smoljanski, Robin Timptner, Benjamin Kaatz