Ghetto (2006)
"Vilniaus getas" (original title)

In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate... See full summary »

Director:

Audrius Juzenas

Writer:

Joshua Sobol

Stars:

Heino Ferch, Sebastian Hülk, Erika Marozsán

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Heino Ferch	...	Gens
Sebastian Hülk	...	Kittel
Erika Marozsán	...	Haya
Andrius Zebrauskas	...	Srulik
Vytautas Shapranauskas	...	Weiskopf
Jörg Lamprecht	...	Dessler (as Jörk Lamprecht)
Adrija Cepaite-Palsauskiene	...	Uma (as Andrija Cepaité)
Darius Meskauskas	...	Arntgen
Jurgis Domasevicius	...	Tlman (as Jurgis Damasevicius)
Eimutis Kvosciauskas	...	Tana
Kristina Mauruseviciute	...	Judith
Sigitas Rackys	...	Kalman
Vilma Raubaite	...	Liuba (as Vilma Raubaité)
Evaldas Jaras	...	Yankl
Mantas Vaitiekunas	...	Yanosh

Storyline

In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.

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Genres:

History | War

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Details

Country:

Germany Lithuania

Language:

English German

Release Date:

8 June 2006 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Ghetto

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dragon Cine Venture Image Entertainment, Lietuvos Kinostudija, Lithuanian Film Studio

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The New York production of "Ghetto" by Joshua Sobol opened at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York on April 30, 1989 and ran for 33 performances.

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Goofs

Bruno Kittel is wearing a Wehrmacht (army) uniform, while in fact he worked for the Gestapo.

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Soundtracks

"Shtiler, Shtiler"
Lyrics by Shmerke Kaczerginski
Music by Alexander Volkoviski Tamir (as Alex Wolkowisky)
Performed by Vilnius M.K. Ciurlionis Music School Children Choir and Choir Aidija
Soloist Vytautas Juozenas
Conductor Romas Grazinis

User Reviews

Very Good movie even than Pianist

First of all, I had to say if you don't finish it you would never feel its goodness. Pianist described the Warsaw Ghetto from a pure view of a Jew. Schudler's list described from a view of a German with Humanity. Both are not enough. This movie shows a German (Nazi) Officer's mental struggling between evil and an artist. Between ghost and human. The same time, a Jew police of Ghetto also struggles mentally the same way, protecting and saving Jewish lives by killing and taking Jewish lives. If you were educated for a long time that the Jew are not human beings, and your nobel duty is to vanish them, but finally you found what you have been taught and told may be wrong. How pain you would be? The same thing as if you are a Christian, you found the Gospel of Juda is true?

When you reach the point, the Jew Police is taking "the third child" from each pair of parents for killing while assigning "the second child" to some parents with only one. You will feel what a "job" he is doing. And I can never imagine if I have a job like this.

Strong Recommended.