| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 130 min.) |
| Summary |
Adapted from the novel by Bruno Apitz and filmed on location at Buchenwald concentration camp, this film features many who were themselves prisoners of the Nazis, as well as younger actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. Based on a true story of inmates who risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp. Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp carrying a suitcase. Inside the suitcase is a small Jewish boy he has kept from harm. Once at Buchenwald, prisoners working in the property storage room discover the child. Although the sight of the innocent child moves many, his presence in the camp endangers the work of the camp's communist underground, who have organized a resistance group. As liberation of the camp approaches, the prisoners must come together to keep the boy safe from their Nazi captors |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Event |
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1963 |
| Subject |
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) -- Drama
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| SUBJECT |
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Drama
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Drama
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Internment camps
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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Feature films
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Fiction films
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Film adaptations
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Film adaptations.
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Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Adventure
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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Films de fiction.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Beyer, Frank, director
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Wolff, Gerry, actor
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Geschonneck, Erwin, actor
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Köfer, Herbert, actor
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Mueller-Stahl, Armin, actor
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Wójcik, Krzysztyn, actor
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Krøger, Hans-Hartmut, actor
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Zahn, Albert, actor
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Prohahn, Jan, actor
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Apitz, Bruno, author
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