While All Germans Sleep

Name: While All Germans Sleep
Cast: Ilja Smoljanski, Robin Timptner, Benjamin Kaatz, Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz, Christiane Hagedorn

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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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Cast & Crew

Director: Frank BeyerWriter: Jurek BeckerProducers: Klaus Gotthardt, Nicolaus Richter, Otto Meissner

Ilja Smoljanski

as Julian

Robin Timptner

as Itzek

Benjamin Kaatz

as Marek

Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz

as Mädchen

Christiane Hagedorn

as Mareks Mutter

Mario Grünewald

Axel Werner

Gerry Wolff

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