As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.
Sharon Brauner
Ruth
Anna Dymna
Rachel, ciotka Ruth
Günter Lamprecht
hauptman Kurt Kleinschmidt, komendant miasta
Mathieu Carrière
oberstumfuhrer Walter Knoch
Ryszarda Hanin
siostra Teresa, przełożona klasztoru
Alicja Jachiewicz
żona Macha
Emilia Krakowska
żona chłopa Pietrka
Barbara Ludwiżanka
stara Żydówka w areszcie
Halina Łabonarska
żona Kleinschmidta
As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.
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Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
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