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Not All Were Murderers

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Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...

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Status: Released

Released Date: 2006-11-01

Runtime: 95 mins

Director: Jo Baier

Writer: Jo Baier

Spoken language: Deutsch, עִבְרִית, Pусский

Genres: Drama, History, TV Movie

Original title: Not All Were Murderers

Production Companies: BR, teamWorx, ARD Degeto

Production Countries: Germany, Poland

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Ironhead
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...
2013-01-05

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