While All Germans Sleep
Released: 1995
Drama
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."
Starring: Ilja Smoljanski, Robin Timptner, Benjamin Kaatz, Maria-Elisabeth Schwarz, Christiane Hagedorn, Mario Grünewald, Axel Werner, Gerry Wolff
Directed by: Frank Beyer
Written by: Jurek Becker
Language: German
Scenes
A boy pees into a metal pot in the middle of the night.
Three boys have a contest to see who can pee the highest on a wall.