“Escape from Sobibor” - a 1987 television movie based on real events, filmed by director Jack Gold . Co-production of Great Britain and Yugoslavia .
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| Producer | Jack Gold |
| Author script | Reginald Rose |
| In the main cast | Yoanna pacula Rutger Hauer Alan Arkin |
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| Composer | Georges Deleryu |
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| Studio | CFS Avala Film Rule Zenith entertainment |
| Duration | 176 min |
| A country | |
| Tongue | |
| First impression | April 12, 1987 |
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The film is based on the book of the same name by Richard Raschke.
Content
Story
The plot is based on the real story of the only successful uprising in the Nazi death camp Sobibor on October 14, 1943 . This is a film adaptation of Richard Raschke’s documentary using Thomas Blatt ’s documentary books “From the Ashes of Sobibor” and Stanislav Schmeisner's “Hell in Sobibor”.
Sobibor - a concentration camp in occupied Poland , one of the Nazi death camps built specifically for the extermination of Jews from the countries conquered by the Germans. It was closed by personal order of the SS Reichsfuhrer Himmler after the most massive escape of prisoners in the history of death camps who decided to resist the Nazi "order" took place in it. The main plan and organization of the uprising was undertaken by a Soviet prisoner of war - Lieutenant Alexander Pechersky , who arrived in Sobibor with a group of Jewish soldiers. According to Pechersky’s plan, the prisoners had to secretly, one by one, liquidate the SS personnel of the camp, and then, having seized the weapons in the warehouse of the camp, kill the guards. The plan was only partially successful - the rebels were able to kill part of the SS men from the camp personnel, but failed to take possession of the arms depot. The guards opened fire on the prisoners, and they were forced to break out of the camp through the minefields. They managed to break the guard and go into the forest. Some of the prisoners did not try to escape. After the escape, Pechersky fought in one of the Belarusian partisan detachments until the arrival of the Red Army .
Cast
- Alan Arkin - Leon Feldhendler
- Yoanna Pacula - Luke
- Rutger Hauer - Alexander Pechersky
- Hartmouth Becker - Gustav Wagner
- Jack Shepherd - Yitzhak Lichtman
- Emil Wolf - Samuel
- Simno Gregor - Stanislav Schmeisner
- Linal Haft - Oberkapo Pishek
- Jason Norman - Thomas Blatt
- Robert Gwilim - Sheim Engel
- Eli Natenson - Moses Schmeisner
- Kurt Raab - Karl Frenzel
- Eric Caspar - Franz Reichleitner
- Hugo Bower - Beckman
- Klaus Grunberg - Bauer
- Wolfgang Batke - Hurst
- Henning Gissel - Fallaster
- Henry Stolov - Neumann
- Ulrich Haupt - Wolf
- Patti Love - Eda
- Judith Sharp - Baile
- Ellis van Maarseven - Selma Weinberg
- David Miller - Mundeck
- Jack Chissick - Herschel
- Ned Vukovich - Morris
- Sarah Shugarman - Naomi
- Diana Krzhanich - Eastner Turner
- Irfan Menzour - Kalimali
- Zoran Stoilikovich - Boris
- Svetolik Nakasevich - the old man
- Mikhailo Yanketich - capo Berliner
- Dejan Savic - capo Spitz
- Zlatan Fazlagic - Weiss
- Predrag Milinkovich - capo Jacob
Interesting Facts
The television film “Escape from Sobibor” was created by the efforts of an internationally creative group: Americans, British, Yugoslavs, Poles, Dutch, French, Russians, Germans took part in the filming of this picture, the script of which was written on the basis of two documentary books about Sobibor.
The prototype of the protagonist - Alexander Pechersky - was not at the premiere of the film. Pechersky’s widow later said that the Soviet authorities simply did not want to draw up documents for them to travel to America. [one]
See also
Sobibor (film) - Russian film of 2018, telling about the same events
Notes
- ↑ Escape from Sobibor Archived May 12, 2009.
Links
- " Escape from Sobibor ” on the Internet Movie Database
- Film "Escape from Sobibor" (english) on Youtube