While All Germans Sleep
While All Germans Sleep
1995, German. Directed by Frank Beyer.
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."
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 31 July 1995
- Original title
- Wenn alle Deutschen schlafen
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Jurek Becker
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While All Germans Sleep runs 72 minutes (1h 12m).
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While All Germans Sleep isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 31 July 1995. (Checked 8 November 2026.)
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Who directed While All Germans Sleep?
While All Germans Sleep (1995) was directed by Frank Beyer and stars Ilja Smoljanski, Robin Timptner, Benjamin Kaatz.