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Original title: Nicht alle waren Mörder
Origin: Germany. Duration: 92 min.
Color. Language: German.
subtitled Filmed in Berlin and Wroclaw
CREDITS
Address: Jo Baier
Writer: Jo Baier, on the book by Michael Degen
Production: Gerhard Hegele, Nico Hoffman
Music: Enjott
Schneider Photo: Gunnar Fuss
Production Designer: Klaus-Peter Platten
Art Director: Matthias Klemme
Set : Klaus-Peter Platten
Costume Design: Ute Hofinger
Sound: Friedrich M. Dosch, Philipp Sellier
Special Effects: Michael Apling, Thomas Schauer, Adolf Wojtinek
Visual Effects: Denis Behnke, Frank Berbert, Sacha Bertram, Sven Martin, Tilman Paulin, Ingo Putze
Filmed on location in Berlin, Germany and Wroclaw, Poland.
ACTORS
Altaras Aaron (Michael Degen)
Nadia Uhl (Anna Degen
Hannelore Elsner (Ludmilla)
Dagmar Mantel (martch)
Mary Simon (Lona)
Richy Muller (Hotze) Axel
Pral. (Redlich)
Katharina Thalbach (Oma Teuber)
Ninidze Mera (Russian Officer)

COMMENT Based on childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the film deals with the daily struggle for survival as a Jew in Germany Nazi. After the death of his father in 1940, after being released from the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Michael and his mother began to fear for their own deportation. Then tried to live in Berlin under false identities and documents hidden by various people, often also in critical condition as they .

MICHAEL DEGEN - Biography
born January 31, 1932 in Chemnitz, Germany. He survived the horrors of Nazism with his mother, hidden among friends who were in Berlin, while his father was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where Muró shortly after the outbreak of a war.
In 1999 he published his acclaimed autobiography "Nicht alle waren Mörder - Eine Kindheit in Berlin "(Not all were murderers. A childhood in Berlin)
After studying acting, premiered at the German Theatre in Berlin and in the following decades worked with some of the most important and prestigious directors like Bertolt Brecht in Germany, Rudolf Noelte and Peter Zadek
is married his third wife. His second wife was actress Dora Borkoff Degen, who had two children, Adina and Jakob Degen. From his first marriage also has two children. The actress Elisabeth Degen and Degen Gabi.

(will be screened on Thursday 30 April at the Museo de la Shoa, Montevideo 919, Buenos Aires, Argentina.18.30 hs)