- Summary
- Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp carrying a suitcase. Inside the suitcase is a small Jewish boy he has kept from harm. Once at Buchenwald, prisoners working in the property storage room discover the child. Although the sight of the innocent child moves many, his presence in the camp endangers the work of the camp's communist underground, who have organized a resistance group. With a heavy heart, some men decide to arrange for the child and Jankowski to be transported to another death camp. As liberation of the camp approaches, the prisoners must come together to keep the young boy safe from their Nazi captors.
- Other Title
- Rebels with a cause, the cinema of East Germany.
Cinema of East Germany.
Verdict on Auschwitz.
- Variant Title
- Naked among wolves
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Amherst : DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts: Progress Film-Verleih: Icestorm: First Run Features, [2005]
- Locale
- Germany
Buchenwald
- Edition
- Widescreen version
- Other Authors/Editors
- Geschonneck, Erwin, 1906-2008.
Delmare, Fred, 1922-2009.
Wójcik, Krystyn.
Mueller-Stahl, Armin, 1930-
Beyer, Frank, 1932-2006.
Apitz, Bruno.
Schäfer, Willi.
Mahlich, Hans.
Werzlau, Joachim.
University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus). DEFA Film Library.
Progress Film-Vertrieb (Berlin, Germany)
Icestorm Entertainment GmbH.
First-Run Features (Firm)
DEFA. Studio für Spielfilme.
- Notes
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Produced by DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme.
Based on the novel by Bruno Apitz.
DVD version of a 1963 motion picture, with added features.
Accompanied by booklet: Rebels with a cause, the cinema of East Germany.
Special features: information about the film; biographies & filmographies; historical context newsreels & essays; DVD preview: Verdict on Auschwitz; theatrical trailer; information about the DEFA Film Library; picture gallery.
Cinematography, Günter Marczinkowski ; editor, Hildegard Conrad ; music, Joachim Werzlau.
Erwin Geschonneck, Fred Delmare, Krzysztyn Wójcik, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gerry Wolff, Peter Sturm, Viktor Awdjuschko, Boleslaw Plotinicki, Wolfram Handel.
DVD format; NTSC.
In German, with optional English subtitles. German or English menus.
