Film

The Paper Brigade

6.020181hDocumentary History

Director: Diane Perelsztejn
Year: 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.

Top cast

Dominique Lévy

Self - Narrator (voice)

Eva Mattes

Self - Narrator (voice)

Samuel Bak

Self - Painter

Bernard Suchecky

Self - Historian

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)

Directed by

Diane Perelsztejn

Written by

Bernard Suchecky

Produced by

Olivier Roncin