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Overview
1945: Buchenwald concentration camp shortly before liberation: Polish inmate Janowski rescues a small child hidden in a suitcase. A child in the world of death means hope and danger at the same time. When his fellow inmates and members of the secret resistance group discover the boy, they are faced with a difficult decision. But in the end, humanity prevails. The original and first German feature film about life and death in a concentration camp based on an authentic story.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 10, 1960
- Original language
- German
- Production
- Fernsehen der DDR
- Cast
- Johannes Wieke,Manfred Borges,Edwin Marian,Fred Delmare,Peter Sturm,Hans-Peter Minetti,Gerd E. Schäfer,Herbert Köfer,Michael Mellinger,Wilfried Ortmannand 19 more
- Director
- Georg Leopold
- Writer
- Wolfgang Hübner,Bruno Apitz
- Cinematography
- Hans Heinrich
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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