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The Paper Brigade

The Paper Brigade

2018•1h 0m•6.0/10
DocumentaryHistory

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6.0/10(1)

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.

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Production

Les Films de la Mémoire, Pois Chiche Films, ARTE GEIE, RTBF, LRT

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Dominique Lévy

Self - Narrator (voice)

Eva Mattes

Eva Mattes

Self - Narrator (voice)

Samuel Bak

Self - Painter

Bernard Suchecky

Self - Historian

Yonat Rotbein

Self - Ruszka Korczak's Daughter

Youval Louria

Self - Z. Kalmanovich's Grandson

David E. Fishman

Self - Historian

Hadas Kalderon

Self - Actress

Liliana Cordova Kaczerginski

Self - Political Activist

Alexander Tamir

Self - Musician

Itzik N. Gottesman

Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar

Sam Norich

Self - Newspaper Publisher

Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Avram Zeleznikow

Self (archive footage)

Shmerke Kaczerginski

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Zelig Hirsch Kalmanovich

Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar (archive footage)

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