The Paper Brigade (2018)

Directed by Diane Perelsztejn1hDocumentary,History

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.

Year
2018
Country
BE
Language
French
Release date
15 March 2018
TMDB
6.0 (1)
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Dominique Lévy
Self - Narrator (voice)
Eva Mattes
Eva Mattes
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Samuel Bak
Self - Painter
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Bernard Suchecky
Self - Historian
Y
Yonat Rotbein
Self - Ruszka Korczak's Daughter
Y
Youval Louria
Self - Z. Kalmanovich's Grandson
D
David E. Fishman
Self - Historian
H
Hadas Kalderon
Self - Actress
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Liliana Cordova Kaczerginski
Self - Political Activist
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Alexander Tamir
Self - Musician
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Itzik N. Gottesman
Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar
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Sam Norich
Self - Newspaper Publisher
Abraham Sutzkever
Abraham Sutzkever
Self - Writer (archive footage)
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Avram Zeleznikow
Self (archive footage)
S
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Self - Writer (archive footage)
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Zelig Hirsch Kalmanovich
Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar (archive footage)

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