Movie: While All Germans Sleep

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Ilja Smoljanski
Ilja Smoljanski

Julian

Robin Timptner
Robin Timptner

Itzek

Benjamin Kaatz
Benjamin Kaatz

Marek

Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz
Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz

Mädchen

Christiane Hagedorn
Christiane Hagedorn

Mareks Mutter

Mario Grünewald
Mario Grünewald

Axel Werner
Axel Werner

Gerry Wolff
Gerry Wolff

Reiner Heise
Reiner Heise

Jürgen Hentsch
Jürgen Hentsch

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    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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    1995-07-31

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