25 Feb 1958
Butterflies Do Not Live Here
A documentary about the life of Jewish children forced to live in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
The Paper Brigade
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 Billed Cast
Dominique Lévy Self - Narrator (voice)
Eva Mattes Self - Narrator (voice)
Samuel Bak Self - Painter
Yonat Rotbein Self - Ruszka Korczak's Daughter
Youval Louria Self - Z. Kalmanovich's Grandson
David E. Fishman Self - Historian
Hadas Kalderon Self - Actress
Liliana Cordova Kaczerginski Self - Political Activist
Alexander Tamir Self - Musician
Itzik N. Gottesman Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar
Sam Norich Self - Newspaper Publisher
Abraham Sutzkever Self - Writer (archive footage)
Avram Zeleznikow Self (archive footage)
Shmerke Kaczerginski Self - Writer (archive footage)
Zelig Hirsch Kalmanovich Self - Yiddish Culture Scholar (archive footage)
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