Apr 19, 2023
19 min
Full-HD

Shielding the Flame (2023)

Category

Animation History War

Country

Poland

Companies

Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN

Maja Ostaszewska

Hanna Krall (voice)

Andrzej Chyra

Marek Edelman (voice)

Robert Mazurkiewicz

Jan Moll (voice)

Nili Amit

Paweł Bączkowski

Andy Edwins

Anna Kerth

Matylda Bujak

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