While All Germans Sleep

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.""

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 31, 1995

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Germany

Production

ARTE,ZDF,Novafilm Fernsehproduktion

Cast

Robin Timptner,Tadeusz Wojtych,Tilo Mandel,Szymon Szurmiej,Gretel Schulze,Axel Werner,Danne Hoffmann,Mario Grünewald,Stefania Staszewska,Maria-Elisabeth Schwarzand 11 more

Director

Frank Beyer

Writer

Jurek Becker

Producer

Otto Meissner,Nicolaus Richter,Klaus Gotthardt

Cinematography

Peter Ziesche

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0111685