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Toyland

Matthias Paul · Germany · Drama / War / Animation · 14 min · 1.9M views

Directed by Jochen Alexander Freydank · Starring Julia Jäger, Cedric Eich, Tamay Bulut Özvatan, Torsten Michaelis · 2007

Germany, 1942: a mother tells her son their Jewish neighbours are off to 'Toyland', until one morning he and the neighbours are gone.

An Oscar-winning, gripping drama about the small lies that let great horrors happen.

Germany 1942: In order to protect her son Marianne Meißner tried to make him believe that the Jewish neighbours are going on a journey to “Toyland”. One morning her son has disappeared - the Jewish neighbours too. Toylan

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