While All Germans Sleep

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."

Directed by Frank Beyer

Top cast

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Ilja Smoljanski

Julian

R

Robin Timptner

Itzek

B

Benjamin Kaatz

Marek

M

Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz

Mädchen

Christiane Hagedorn

Mareks Mutter

M

Mario Grünewald

Axel Werner

Gerry Wolff

Reiner Heise

Jürgen Hentsch

Narrator

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Danne Hoffmann

Herman Lercher

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Tilo Mandel

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Michael Page

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Gretel Schulze

Gerd Staiger

Stefania Staszewska

Szymon Szurmiej

Tadeusz Wojtych

Arno Wyzniewski

Details