Third Reich - WWII Stories (Volume 3) - 5-DVD Set ( Der neunte Tag / Playing for Time / Within the Whirlwind / Die Flucht / The Diary of Anne Frank / ) ( The Ninth Day / Playing for Time / Within the Whirlwind / March of Millions / The Diary of Anne Frank / )

Third Reich - WWII Stories (Volume 3) - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

$36.99

Original Title: Der neunte Tag / Playing for Time / Within the Whirlwind / Die Flucht / The Diary of Anne Frank /
Alternate Title: The Ninth Day / Playing for Time / Within the Whirlwind / March of Millions / The Diary of Anne Frank /
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
472 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1980-2009 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Luxembourg ( France, Benelux )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Volker Schlöndorff
Daniel Mann
Joseph Sargent
Marleen Gorris
Kai Wessel
Gareth Davies

Written By:
Jean Bernard
Eberhard Görner
Andreas Pflüger
Arthur Miller
Fania Fénelon
Nancy Larson
Eugenia Ginzburg
Gabriela Sperl
Anne Frank
Elaine Morgan

Actors:
Ulrich Matthes ..... Abbé Henri Kremer
August Diehl ..... Untersturmführer Gebhardt
Hilmar Thate ..... Bischof Philippe
Bibiana Beglau ..... Marie Kremer
Germain Wagner ..... Roger Kremer
Jean-Paul Raths ..... Raymond Schmitt
Ivan Jirík ..... Armando Bausch
Karel Hromadka ..... Pater Laurant Koltz
Miroslav Sichmann ..... Pater Marcel Bour
Adolf Filip ..... Professor Klimek (Kraków)
Vladimír Fiser ..... Bischof Kozal
Peter Varga ..... Józef (Polish Inmate)
Petr Janis ..... Pater Nansen
Zdenek Pechácek ..... Lagerführer
Václav Krátký ..... SS-Mann
Marcel Svidrman ..... Gestapomann (with Gebhardt)
Karel Dobrý ..... Raportführer Bertram
Götz Burger ..... Generalvikar Gerard Mersch
Vanessa Redgrave ..... Fania Fenelon
Jane Alexander ..... Alma Rose
Maud Adams ..... Mala
Christine Baranski ..... Olga
Robin Bartlett ..... Etalina
Marisa Berenson ..... Elzvieta
Verna Bloom ..... Paulette
Donna Haley ..... Katrina
Lenore Harris ..... Charlotte
Mady Kaplan ..... Varya
Will Lee ..... Shmuel
Anna Thomson ..... Michou
Viveca Lindfors ..... Frau Schmidt
Melanie Mayron ..... Marianne
Marcell Rosenblatt ..... Giselle
Max Wright ..... Dr. Mengele
Shirley Knight ..... Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Elaine Bromka ..... Tchiakowska
Emily Watson ..... Evgenia Ginzburg
Ulrich Tukur ..... Dr. Anton Walter
Ian Hart ..... Beylin
Benjamin Sadler ..... Pavel Aksyonov
Ben Miller ..... Krasny
Jimmy Yuill ..... Siderov
Pearce Quigley ..... Yelvov
Monica Dolan ..... Pitkovskaya
Pam Ferris ..... Genia's mother
Agata Buzek ..... Lena
Lena Stolze ..... Greta
Maria Mamona ..... Tanya
Beata Fudalej ..... Olga
Maria Seweryn ..... Zimmermann
Boguslawa Schubert ..... Marya
Magdalena Górska ..... Magda
Magdalena Gnatowska ..... Criminal 1
Barbara Kurzaj ..... Criminal 2
Maria Furtwängler ..... Lena Gräfin von Mahlenberg
Jean-Yves Berteloot ..... Francois Beauvais
Tonio Arango ..... Heinrich Graf von Gernstorff
Gabriela Maria Schmeide ..... Babette
Jürgen Hentsch ..... Berthold Graf von Mahlenberg
Hanns Zischler ..... Rüdiger Graf von Gernstorff
Angela Winkler ..... Sophie Gräfin von Gernstorff
Max von Thun ..... Ferdinand, Graf von Gernstorff
Josef Mattes ..... Fritz
Stella Kunkat ..... Victoria 'Vicky'
Michael Ginsburg ..... Mikolai
Barbara Morawiecz ..... Oma Herta
Marie-Luise Schramm ..... Waltraud
Frédéric Vonhof ..... Louis
Beate Abraham ..... Frau Meister
Winfried Glatzeder ..... Dietrich, the Butler
Fritz Karl ..... Stv. Gauleiter Herrmann
Hans Brückner ..... Stabsfeldwebel Jobst
Katharine Schlesinger ..... Anne Frank
Emrys James ..... Otto Frank
Elizabeth Bell ..... Edith Frank
Emma Bowe ..... Margot Frank
Daniel Moynihan ..... Mr. Koophuis
Nigel Anthony ..... Mr. Kraler
Janet Amsbury ..... Miep Gies
Kate Michell ..... Elli
Christopher Benjamin ..... Mr. Van Daan
Susan Tracy ..... Mrs. Van Daan
Steven Mackintosh ..... Peter Van Daan
David Swift ..... Mr. Dussel
Christian Rodska ..... Warehouse Clerk
Eva Griffith ..... Lies
Nick Powell ..... NSB Man
Grant Thatcher ..... Peter Wessel
Harry Fielder ..... Vegetable Man
Gareth Kirkland ..... Harry Goldberg

Synopsis:

***WARNING: The Ninth Day and March of Millions DO NOT HAVE ENGLISH Language options*** The Ninth Day: In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests, Father Abbé Henri Kremer gets a nine-day leave to return to his home town for his mother's funeral. During this period, the SS Gestapo lieutenant Gebhardt tries to persuade Henri, who was born with a silver spoon and a member of an influential Luxembourgian family, to convince the local bishop to give up resisting to the Germans and write a letter to the Vatican in the name of the Catholic Church of Luxemburg, convincing the Pope to support Hitler and the Nazi regime. The ambivalent Henri questions himself and the bishop what he shall do. Playing for Time: In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards take her clothing and luggage and they cut her hair very short. One day, when she is very weak, she hears someone asking whether any prisoner could sing Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and she joins the group of musicians that have been spared from the gas chambers to entertain the Nazis performing music for them. She convinces the conductor Alma Rose to invite her friend Marianne, telling that she would be a talented singer. Along the years of abusive treatment, they survive but losing their dignity. Within the Whirlwind: Evgenia Ginzburg, a Russian Literature Professor at the University of Kazan, and her family live the privileged lives of Communist appparatchiks, with a large apartment, a new American car and a country dacha. Under Stalin?s leadership, the Communist Party undergoes a major transformation, and little by little, all intellectuals, engineers and academics are interrogated by the secret police. Evgenia is suspected of membership in a Trotskyist organization. While enduring various sophisticated psychological tortures, she finds herself facing outrageously trumped-up charges. Unwilling to denounce anyone, she is sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. For Evgenia, it is the beginning of a long, painful journey into the Gulag camp system, where she survives only because of her love to a German camp doctor. March of Millions: In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia, like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, believed that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee. The Diary of Anne Frank: During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 10 October, 2025.