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The Wall

The Wall

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 16, 1982

Runtime

2h 15m

Genres

Action, War, Drama, TV Movie

User Score

50%

Original Title

The Wall

Production Companies

Time-Life Television Productions, CBS

Director

Robert Markowitz

Description

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.