Naked Among Wolves (german: Nackt unter Wölfen) is a 2015 German drama film directed by
Philipp Kadelbach
Philipp Kadelbach (born 9 September 1974, Frankfurt am Main) is a German film and television director. In discussing Kadelbach, actor Jürgen Schornagel stated "He's in the top five of the 116 directors I've worked with. He helps young people and e ...
. It is based on the 1958
novel of the same name by
Bruno Apitz
Bruno Apitz (28 April 1900 – 7 April 1979) was a German writer and a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Life and career
Apitz was born in Leipzig, as the twelfth child of a washer woman. He attended school until he was fourteen, t ...
, which was published in 1958 by the East German Publishing house. It was created for television, it is the third film version of the literary text after the
1963 version.
Plot
The film takes place in the years 1944 and 1945 towards the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
in the
Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald (; literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or su ...
. Prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp risk their lives by taking in a young Jewish boy rescued from a ghetto in Poland. The camp commander hears about the boy and tightens up on the already cruelly treated prisoners. They whisk the boy away from being discovered, always staying one step ahead of the Nazi guards and the ireful commandant. The boy is eventually discovered and the prisoners who protected him now face certain death. They are freed by the Allies in a dramatic but altogether expected turn of events.
Cast
*
Florian Stetter
Florian Stetter (born Munich
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- Hans Pippig
*
Peter Schneider - André Höfel
*
Sylvester Groth
Sylvester Groth (born 31 March 1958) is a German theater, television, and film actor. He is best known to international audiences from his appearances in Hollywood movies including ''Inglourious Basterds'' and ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E''. Furthe ...
- Helmut Krämer
* - Hermann Reineboth
* - Robert Kluttig
*
Rainer Bock
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* Rainer (surname)
* Rainer (given name)
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* Rainer Island, an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia
* 16802 Rainer, an asteroid
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See also
* Rainier (disambiguation ...
- Alois Schwahl
* - Marian Kropinski
* - Hans Bochow
References
External links
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2015 television films
2015 films
2015 drama films
German drama television films
2010s German-language films
German-language television shows
Films based on German novels
Television shows based on German novels
German World War II films
Holocaust films
Films about communism
Films set in 1944
Films set in 1945
Films shot in the Czech Republic
German prison films
2010s German films
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