Escape from Sobibor (TV 1987)

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)

Storyline

During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had been spared from the ovens, knew that they were on borrowed time and that their only hope was to escape... the only question was how to do it. However, because the Germans would kill an equal number of others whenever a group attempted to escape, the captives knew that if ever an escape was tried, all 600 prisoners in the camp would have to be included... logistically precluding any ideas about tunnels or sneak breakouts. Indeed, to have such a mass escape could only mean that the Ukrainian guards and Germain officers would have to be killed, which many of the Jews felt simply reduced themselves to no better than their captors... thus making it a struggle of conscience... Written by BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>  

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