Summary
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
Details
Release Date: June 8, 2006
Runtime: 110 minutes
Genres: History, War
Original Language: DE
Rating: ⭐ 6.8/10 (32 votes)
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Cast
Heino Ferch
Gens
Sebastian Hülk
Kittel
Erika Marozsán
Haya
Vytautas Sapranauskas
Weiskopf
Asta Baukutė
Dina Abramowitz
Margarita Žiemelytė
Lina
Darius Meškauskas
Arntgen
Mantas Vaitiekūnas
Yanosh
Edita Užaitė
Bar Hostess
Andrius Žebrauskas
Srulik
Brigita Bublytė
Adrija Čepaitė-Palšauskienė
Uma (as Adrija Cepaite)
Sigitas Rackys
Kalman
Vilma Raubaitė
Liuba
Evaldas Jaras
Yankl
Algirdas Dainavičius
Gerstein
Kseniya Orlova
Tova
Kristina Savickytė
Helena
Artūras Aleksejevas
Elia
Valentin Kirejev
Geivish (as Valentinas Kirejevas)
Dmitrij Denisiuk
Averbuch
Šarūnas Puidokas
Levas
Nelė Savičenko
Dr. Sonia
Arvydas Dapšys
Judge
Arunas Smailys
German Officer
Konstantin Arefyev
Jewish Police
Vaida Būtytė
Bar Hostess
Inga Maškarina
Weiskopf's Wife
Airida Gintautaitė
Jewish Dancer (uncredited)