Naked Among Wolves
1945: Buchenwald concentration camp shortly before liberation: Polish inmate Janowski rescues a small child hidden in a suitcase. A child in the world of death means hope and danger at the same time. When his fellow inmates and members of the secret resistance group discover the boy, they are faced with a difficult decision. But in the end, humanity prevails. The original and first German feature film about life and death in a concentration camp based on an authentic story.
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Georg Leopold Director · Wolfgang Hübner Writer Bruno Apitz Author
First release April 10, 1963 · Produced in XG · Original title Nackt unter Wölfen
Production
Fernsehen der DDR
Production
XG
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Original title
Nackt unter Wölfen
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · April 10, 1963
Theatrical · East Germany
No release date listed for United States.
France
March 21, 1971 · Theatrical
Germany
November 17, 1967 · Theatrical · West Germany
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