A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
Tom Conti
as Dolek Berson
Lisa Eichhorn
as Rachel Apt
Gerald Hiken
as Fischel Shpunt
Rachel Roberts
as Regina Kowalska
Philip Sterling
as Reb Mazur
Eli Wallach
as Mauritzi Apt
Laurent Aidenbaum
as David Apt
Rosanna Arquette
as Halinka Apt
Roberts Blossom
as Kuchaski
James Cromwell
as Francisek
Griffin Dunne
as Mordecai Apt
Christine Estabrook
as Rutka