The Wall
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Markowitz
John Brown
Clifford Rose
Di Trevis
Svee Scooler
Jerry Zaks
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Synopsis
The dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews' desperate attempts to defend themselves against Nazi extermination in April 1943, with about 650 members of the Jewish Fighting Organization fending off about 3,000 German soldiers to the final stand, with only a handful of Jews surviving. This fictionalized account, with Tom Conti in his American TV-movie debut as a disinterested, non-Jewish bystander who finally joins the resistance movement, and Rachel Roberts, who had died shortly after making this film in 1980, as a former teacher, was adapted by Millard Lampell from his Broadway play that was based on John Hersey's 1950 novel about the uprising. The film won the 1982 George Foster Peabody Award for distinguished programming.
Director
Robert Markowitz
Cast
John Brown
Clifford Rose
Di Trevis
Svee Scooler
Jerry Zaks
Steven Ubels
Anna Korwin
Ben Piazza
Eli Wallach
Christine Estabrook
Victoria Plum
Roberts Blossom
Tom Conti
Griffin Dunne
Ben Slack
Laurent Aidenbaum
Bruce Ornstein
Rachel Roberts
Philip Sterling
Lieb Lensky
Ronald Hunter
John Heffernan
Mordecai Lawner
Roy Steinberg
Milton Johns
Dianne Wiest
David Shawyer
Rosanna Arquette
Howard Goorney
James Cromwell
Lisa Eichhorn
Joel Polis
Gerald Hiken
Yusef Bulos
John Tillinger
Barry Woolgar
Richard Frank
Crew
Jerzy Antzcak
Nancy Dockry
John Hersey
Diana Kerew
Millard Lampell
Millard Lampell
Millard Lampell
Jerzy Maslowski
Ben Nye
Leonard Rosenman
Harry R Sherman
David Susskind
Peter Sutton
Brian Tufano
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Aired in United States February 16, 1982
