Escape from Sobibor
Directed by:
Jack GoldScreenplay:
Reginald RoseCinematography:
Ernest VinczeComposer:
Georges DelerueCast:
Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker, Jack Shepherd, David Miller, Sara Sugarman, Irfan Mensur, Mihailo 'Misa' Janketic, Kurt Raab (more)Plots(1)
From the novel penned by Richard Raske, comes a true story about the unbreakable spirit of man's will to survive and courage in the face of death. The men and women caged in Sobibor, a Nazi concentration camp infamous for slaughtering a quarter million of its captives, won't quietly await their inevitable executions. Together they unite and attempt a sort of mutiny to break free of their prison and escape death at the hands of Hitler's disciples. One man, Leon Feldhendler (Alan Arkin), has the courage to rally his fellow detainees to make a mass escape from the death camp. Leon acquires the help of an imprisoned Russian soldier, Alexander Percherski (Rutger Hauer), who gives him the tactical know-how to plan the breakout. In a heartrending struggle for life, six hundred Jews storm the camp's gates, but only three hundred make it to freedom. (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
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An excellent film set in one of the "labor" camps that Germany established during World War II. The planning of the escape, the fates of individual characters, and the relationships between them and the guards are all captured very well here, and at times very intensely, without the film being unnecessarily melodramatic. That doesn't always happen.
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