While All Germans Sleep

While All Germans Sleep

72 mins | Drama | July 31, 1995

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."

While All Germans Sleep

72 mins | Drama | July 31, 1995

While All Germans Sleep
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."
Producers ARTE, ZDF, Novafilm Fernsehproduktion GmbH
Original title Wenn alle Deutschen schlafen
Directors Frank Beyer
Writers Jurek Becker

Cast

Ilja Smoljanski

as Julian

Robin Timptner

as Itzek

Benjamin Kaatz

as Marek

Christiane Hagedorn

as Mareks Mutter

Jürgen Hentsch

as Narrator