The Paper Brigade

IMDb 6.0 2018 • 60 min • DocumentaryHistory

Director

Diane Perelsztejn

Country

BE

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Dominique Lévy
Dominique Lévy Self - Narrator (voice)
Eva Mattes
Eva Mattes Self - Narrator (voice)
Samuel Bak
Samuel Bak Self - Painter
Bernard Suchecky
Bernard Suchecky Self - Historian
Yonat Rotbein
Yonat Rotbein Self - Ruszka Korczak's Daughter