The Paper Brigade (2018)
- Released
- Runtime 1h 0m
- Director Diane Perelsztejn
- Genres Documentary History
Synopsis
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.
Cast
- Dominique Lévy as Self - Narrator (voice)
-
Eva Mattes
as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Samuel Bak as Self - Painter
- Bernard Suchecky as Self - Historian
- Yonat Rotbein as Self - Ruszka Korczak's Daughter
- Youval Louria as Self - Z. Kalmanovich's Grandson
- David E. Fishman as Self - Historian
- Hadas Kalderon as Self - Actress
- Liliana Cordova Kaczerginski as Self - Political Activist
- Alexander Tamir as Self - Musician
- Itzik N. Gottesman as Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar
- Sam Norich as Self - Newspaper Publisher
-
Abraham Sutzkever
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
- Avram Zeleznikow as Self (archive footage)
- Shmerke Kaczerginski as Self - Writer (archive footage)
- Zelig Hirsch Kalmanovich as Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar (archive footage)
Crew
- Diane Perelsztejn Director
- Didier Hill-Derive Director of Photography
- Marguerite Le Bourgeois Editor
- Willy Perelsztejn Producer
- Olivier Roncin Producer
- Diane Perelsztejn Writer
- Bernard Suchecky Writer
