While All Germans Sleep

1h 12m
Drama
0

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."

Cast

Ilja Smoljanski
Julian
Robin Timptner
Itzek
Benjamin Kaatz
Marek
Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz
Mädchen
Christiane Hagedorn
Mareks Mutter
Mario Grünewald
Unknown
Axel Werner
Unknown
Gerry Wolff
Unknown
Reiner Heise
Unknown
Jürgen Hentsch
Narrator
Danne Hoffmann
Unknown
Herman Lercher
Unknown
Tilo Mandel
Unknown
Michael Page
Unknown
Gretel Schulze
Unknown
Gerd Staiger
Unknown
Stefania Staszewska
Unknown
Szymon Szurmiej
Unknown
Tadeusz Wojtych
Unknown
Arno Wyzniewski
Unknown
Sławomir Głazek
Żyd

Crew

Frank Beyer
Director
Jurek Becker
Writer
Helga Olschewski
Editor
Peter Ziesche
Director of Photography
Otto Meissner
Producer
Nicolaus Richter
Producer
Klaus Gotthardt
Producer
Hanna Morawiecka
Costume Design
Lorenzo Barcelata
Music
Alfred Hirschmeier
Set Designer