While All Germans Sleep (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."
Director: Frank Beyer
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Ilja Smoljanski as Julian |
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Robin Timptner as Itzek |
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Benjamin Kaatz as Marek |
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Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz as Mädchen |
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Christiane Hagedorn as Mareks Mutter |
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Mario Grünewald as |
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Axel Werner as |
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Gerry Wolff as |
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Reiner Heise as |
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Jürgen Hentsch as Narrator |
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Danne Hoffmann as |
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Herman Lercher as |
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Tilo Mandel as |
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Michael Page as |
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Gretel Schulze as |
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Gerd Staiger as |
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Stefania Staszewska as |
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Szymon Szurmiej as |
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Tadeusz Wojtych as |
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Arno Wyzniewski as |
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Sławomir Głazek as Żyd |
| Editing | Helga Olschewski | Editor |
| Camera | Peter Ziesche | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Jurek Becker | Writer |
| Sound | Lorenzo Barcelata | Music |
| Directing | Frank Beyer | Director |
| Art | Alfred Hirschmeier | Set Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Hanna Morawiecka | Costume Design |
| Production | Otto Meissner | Producer |
| Production | Nicolaus Richter | Producer |
| Production | Klaus Gotthardt | Producer |