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Escape from Sobibor (TV 1987) 7.4
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were ... See full summary » Director:Jack GoldWriters:Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt (manuscript "From the Ashes of Sobibor"), Richard Rashke (book), 2 more credits » |
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Leon Feldhendler
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Luka
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Itzhak Lichtman
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Samuel
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Shlomo
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Oberkapo Porchek
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Jason Norman | ... |
Toivi Blatt
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Robert Gwilym | ... |
Chaim Engel
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Eli Nathenson | ... |
Moses Szmajzner
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Kurt Raab | ... |
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Eric P. Caspar | ... |
Capt. Franz Reichleitner
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Hugo Bower | ... |
Sgt. Beckmann
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Klaus Grünberg | ... |
Sgt. Bauer
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During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow 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. And therein lies the story, with the film being based on a factual account of what then ... Written by BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>
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EnglishRelease Date:
12 April 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Apodrasi apo to Sobibor See more »Company Credits
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Written by Johann Strauß
Played at the dance
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In the death shower scene where a large number of naked women were led to the chambers, one of them could be seen keeping her bra and panties on. See more »Soundtracks
"Roses from the South"(uncredited)
Written by Johann Strauß
Played at the dance
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This movie is fantastic, no doubt about it. It takes place in the Sobibor death camp in Poland during World War II, where Jews are sent to be killed but where also there are over 600 Jews and Russian POWs working. It shows many of the hardships that Jews faced during this time and the brutality of the German SS officers. Alan Arkin is a Jew in working in the camp who is somewhat of a leader among the prisoners there, and with trains of people coming into the camp every day, a train carrying several Russian POWs comes (all Jewish, that is why they were sent there instead of a regular POW camp) and Rutger Hauer is the leader among them. Arkin and Hauer soon work together among other prisoners to devise a way to escape, originally planning an escape that involved only a dozen men but they eventually decided it had to be the entire camp population of 600, or else the 600 people left there would most likely be slaughtered. The film is full of suspense and based on a true story that happened at Sobibor, which was the biggest camp escape during the war. This movie is in some parts shocking when, like Schindler's List and other Holocaust films, it shows naked women and children being led into the gas chambers and a woman being executed simply for bringing her baby into the camp. This movie is a great film and I am surprised that it was only a made-for-TV movie, for it has the true qualities of a theater movie and it also has a great musical soundtrack. Feel free to email me if you have any questions or comments.