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
Cast: Ilja Smoljanski, Robin Timptner, Benjamin Kaatz, Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz, Christiane Hagedorn, Mario Grünewald, Axel Werner, Gerry Wolff
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."
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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 …
1h 12m
July 31, 1995
Frank Beyer
Ilja Smoljanski, Robin Timptner, Benjamin Kaatz
Drama