While All Germans Sleep

While All Germans Sleep

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While All Germans Sleep

1995

1h 12m

7.0(1 votes)

Drama

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."

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Cast & Crew

21 members

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Ilja Smoljanski

Julian

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Robin Timptner

Itzek

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Benjamin Kaatz

Marek

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Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz

Mädchen

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Christiane Hagedorn

Mareks Mutter

Christiane Hagedorn

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Mario Grünewald

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Axel Werner

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Axel Werner

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Gerry Wolff

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Gerry Wolff

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Reiner Heise

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Reiner Heise

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Jürgen Hentsch

Narrator

Jürgen Hentsch

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Danne Hoffmann

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Herman Lercher

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Herman Lercher

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Tilo Mandel

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Michael Page

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Gretel Schulze

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Gerd Staiger

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Gerd Staiger

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Stefania Staszewska

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Stefania Staszewska

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Szymon Szurmiej

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Szymon Szurmiej

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Tadeusz Wojtych

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Tadeusz Wojtych

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Arno Wyzniewski

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Arno Wyzniewski

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Sławomir Głazek

Żyd

Sławomir Głazek

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