Wall, The (Full Frame)

VHS, 150 minutes, HBO

In October 1940, the Germans round up the Jewish families of Warsaw and force them into a walled-up area that becomes known as the Warsaw Ghetto. "The Wall" tells the haunting, powerful and explosive story of its inhabitants. For the Apt family and their friends, it will be a time of love, marriage, birth, betrayal. hunger and fear, rage and sorrow. Within their family, as within the community itself, there are those who choose to stay, those who choose to flee, and those who have no choice but to fight for their lives. The formation of a resistance within the wall hardens their resolve to survive. On April 19th, 1943, the Germans decide to level the ghetto. An operation they expect to take 24 hours takes over 28 days. By the time the ghetto finally falls, only a handful of more than a half a million Jewish citizens that had entered its walls will escape through the sewers beneath the city to join the Resistance in the hills of Poland.