The Paper Brigade

Overview

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.

Directed by Diane Perelsztejn

Top cast

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Dominique Lévy

Self - Narrator (voice)

Eva Mattes

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Samuel Bak

Self - Painter

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Bernard Suchecky

Self - Historian

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Yonat Rotbein

Self - Ruszka Korczak's Daughter

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Youval Louria

Self - Z. Kalmanovich's Grandson

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David E. Fishman

Self - Historian

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Hadas Kalderon

Self - Actress

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Liliana Cordova Kaczerginski

Self - Political Activist

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Alexander Tamir

Self - Musician

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Itzik N. Gottesman

Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar

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Sam Norich

Self - Newspaper Publisher

Abraham Sutzkever

Self - Writer (archive footage)

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Avram Zeleznikow

Self (archive footage)

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Shmerke Kaczerginski

Self - Writer (archive footage)

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Zelig Hirsch Kalmanovich

Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar (archive footage)

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