Escape from Sobibor
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| Directed by | Jack Gold |
| Produced by | Dennis E. Doty |
| Written by | Thomas Blatt Richard Rashke (book) Reginald Rose Stanislaw Szmajzner |
| Narrated by | Howard K. Smith |
| Starring | Alan Arkin Joanna Pacuła Rutger Hauer Hartmut Becker Jack Shepherd |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Ernest Vincze |
| Editing by | Keith Palmer |
| Distributed by | Zenith Productions |
| Release date(s) | April 12, 1987 (USA) |
| Running time | 143 minutes (uncut) 120 minutes (edited) |
| Country | UK / Yugoslavia |
| Language | English |
Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British made-for-TV film which aired on CBS. It deals with the extermination camp at Sobibor, the site of the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (there were two other uprisings, at Auschwitz and Treblinka). The film was directed by Jack Gold.
On October 14, 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance succeeded in covertly killing eleven German officers and a number of Ukrainian guards. Of the 600 inmates in the camp, roughly 300 escaped, although most were later re-captured and killed. The escape forced the Nazis to close the death camp, dismantling it and planting a forest.
The screenplay was based on the book of the same name written by Richard Rashke. Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła and Rutger Hauer were the primary stars of the film. After it was filmed at Avala, Yugoslavia, Rutger Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television). Camp survivor Thomas Blatt served as a technical consultant.
[edit] Cast
- Rutger Hauer as Alexander Pechersky
- Joanna Pacuła as Luka
- Hartmut Becker as Gustav Wagner
- Simon Gregor as Stanislaw 'Shlomo' Szmajzner
- Jason Norman as Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt
- Robert Gwilym as Chaim Engel
- Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman
- Kurt Raab as Karl Frenzel
- Klaus Grünberg as Erich Bauer
- Henry Stolow as Johann Niemann
- Ellis Van Maarseveen as Selma Wijnberg-Engel
- David Miller as Mundek
- Sara Sugarman as Naomi
- Irfan Mensur as Kalimali
- Howard K. Smith (narrator)
- Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler
- Misa Janketic as Kapo Berliner
- Svetislav Goncic as 1st prisoner
- Erol Kadic as 2nd prisoner
- Predrag Todorovic as 1st Guard
- Predrag Milinkovic as Kapo Jacob
- Bozidar Pavicevic as Ivan Klatt
- Miroljub Leso as 3rd prisoner
- Ratislav Jovic as Shlomo's father
- Jelena Zigon as Toivi's mother
- Zoran Stojiljkovic as Boris
- Dejan Cavic as Kapo Spitz
- Dragomir Stanojevic-Bata Kameni as 2nd guard
- Eric Caspar as Franz Reichleitner
- Hugo Bower as Sgt. Beckmann
- Milan Erak as SS. Corporal
- Svetolik Nikacevic as Elderly man
- Wolfgang Bathke as Sgt. Hurst
[edit] See also
- List of films in the public domain
- List of Holocaust films
- The Grey Zone, 2001 movie about uprising in Auschwitz-Birkenau
[edit] External links
- Escape from Sobibor at the Internet Movie Database
- Escape from Sobibor at AllRovi
- Escape from Sobibor is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
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