Film · Documentary, History
The Paper Brigade (2018)
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.
- Director
- Diane Perelsztejn
- Writers
- Diane Perelsztejn, Bernard Suchecky
- Country
- Belgium, France, Germany
- Language
- French
- Release date
- March 15, 2018
- Original title
- La Brigade des papiers
Cast
- Dominique LévySelf - Narrator (voice)
Eva MattesSelf - Narrator (voice)- Samuel BakSelf - Painter
- Bernard SucheckySelf - Historian
- Yonat RotbeinSelf - Ruszka Korczak's Daughter
- Youval LouriaSelf - Z. Kalmanovich's Grandson
- David E. FishmanSelf - Historian
- Hadas KalderonSelf - Actress
- Liliana Cordova KaczerginskiSelf - Political Activist
- Alexander TamirSelf - Musician
- Itzik N. GottesmanSelf - Yiddish Culture Scholar
- Sam NorichSelf - Newspaper Publisher
Abraham SutzkeverSelf - Writer (archive footage)- Avram ZeleznikowSelf (archive footage)
- Shmerke KaczerginskiSelf - Writer (archive footage)
- Zelig Hirsch KalmanovichSelf - Yiddish Culture Scholar (archive footage)
