Overview
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
Cast
- Tom Conti as Dolek Berson
- Lisa Eichhorn as Rachel Apt
- Gerald Hiken as Fischel Shpunt
- Rachel Roberts as Regina Kowalska
- Philip Sterling as Reb Mazur
- Eli Wallach as Mauritzi Apt
- Laurent Aidenbaum as David Apt
- Rosanna Arquette as Halinka Apt
- Roberts Blossom as Kuchaski
- James Cromwell as Francisek