While All Germans Sleep

While All Germans Sleep — Plot

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."

• Release date
• July 31, 1995
• Runtime
• 72 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Frank Beyer

While All Germans Sleep — Cast

I

Ilja Smoljanski Julian

R

Robin Timptner Itzek

B

Benjamin Kaatz Marek

M

Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz Mädchen Christiane Hagedorn Mareks Mutter

M

Mario Grünewald Axel Werner Gerry Wolff