Top Cast
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Gabriel Barylli
Freddy Wolff
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Monica Bleibtreu
Mrs. Shapiro
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Tilli Breidenbach
Frau Bauer
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Joachim Kemmer
Binder
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Peter Lühr
Dr. Treumann
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Dagmar Schwarz
Frau Marmorek
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Doris Buchrucker
Lissa
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Johannes Silberschneider
Ferry
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Gideon Singer
Popper
Overview
After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer.
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
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Adam Resurrected
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The World Will Tremble
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Voyage of the Damned
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
The Boy in the Woods
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
The Last Train
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
The Pianist
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Uprising
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
The Devil's Arithmetic
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.