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Writers:
Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt (manuscript "From the Ashes of Sobibor")
Richard Rashke (book)
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Release Date:
12 April 1987 (USA) more
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During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in... more | add synopsis
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Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 6 nominations more
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edge of seat!!! more (59 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alan Arkin | ... | Leon Feldhendler |
 | Joanna Pacula | ... | Luka |
 | Rutger Hauer | ... | Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky |
 | Hartmut Becker | ... | Sgt. Gustav Wagner |
| Jack Shepherd | ... | Itzhak Lichtman |
| Emil Wolk | ... | Samuel |
| Simon Gregor | ... | Stanislaw 'Shlomo' Szmajzner |
| Linal Haft | ... | Oberkapo Porchek |
| Jason Norman | ... | Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt |
| Robert Gwilym | ... | Chaim Engel |
| Eli Nathenson | ... | Moses Szmajzner |
| Kurt Raab | ... | Sgt. Frenzel |
| Eric P. Caspar | ... | Capt. Franz Reichleitner |
| Hugo Bower | ... | Sgt. Beckmann |
| Klaus Grünberg | ... | Sgt. Bauer (as Klaus Grunberg) |
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143 min | 120 min (DVD version)
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UK | Yugoslavia
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Continuity: The head SS-Sergeant is referred to as a "Hauptscharführer," however he wears the insignia of a "Sturmscharführer" which is one rank higher. more
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Sgt. Gustav Wagner: This morning, two prisoners escaped from North Camp. Thirteen other prisoners, no doubt inspired by their idiotic example, also tried to escape. If any of you would like to cheer, go right ahead. There will be no more escape attempts in this camp. I'll repeat that. THERE WILL BE NO MORE ESCAPE ATTEMPTS IN THIS CAMP!! more
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Referenced in The Pianist (2002) more
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I first got this out on video many years back. Being interested in the holocaust from a young age,and having traveled through Poland in the early eighties I got this out of interest.Amazing to think it was done for television and not cinema. I,was on the edge of my seat all the way through,could hardly breath all through the film,did not take my eyes off the screen.The ending is both shattering and uplifting.Even more so knowing the outcome of some of the lives. And how simply fitting a denouement on the end credits the result of the police investigation, give that policeman a medal. On the whole the acting is exceptional, and by that I mean one forgets the actor and sees only the person as real. In fact it has that real life documentary feel to the story. Most satisfying to have seen it before Rutger got semi-famous.