While All Germans Sleep

Drama · 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."

Starring

Ilja Smoljanski, Frank Beyer, Robin Timptner, Jurek Becker, Alfred Hirschmeier, Benjamin Kaatz, Peter Ziesche, Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz, Peter Ziesche, Otto Meissner, Christiane Hagedorn

Director

Frank Beyer

Producer

Klaus Gotthardt