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.[1] It is the story of the mass escape from the extermination camp at Sobibor, 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.[2] 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.
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[edit] Cast
In credits order.
- Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler
- Joanna Pacuła as Luka
- Rutger Hauer as Lieutenant Aleksandr 'Sasha' Pechersky
- Hartmut Becker as SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Wagner[note 1]
- Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman
- Emil Wolk as Samuel
- Simon Gregor as Stanislaw 'Shlomo' Szmajzner
- Linal Haft as Kapo Porchek
- Jason Norman as Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt
- Robert Gwilym as Chaim Engel
- Eli Nathenson as Moses Szmajzner
- Kurt Raab as SS-Oberscharführer Karl Frenzel[note 2]
- Eric Caspar as SS-Hauptsturmführer Franz Reichleitner
- Hugo Bower as SS-Oberscharführer Rudolf Beckmann
- Klaus Grünberg as SS-Oberscharführer Erich Bauer
- Wolfgang Bathke as SS-Unterscharführer Hurst
- Henning Gissel as SS-Unterscharführer Fallaster
- Henry Stolow as SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann
- Ullrich Haupt as SS-Unterscharführer Wolf
- Patti Love as Eda
- Judith Sharp as Bajle
- Ellis Van Maarseveen as Selma Wijnberg
- David Miller as Mundek
- Jack Chissick as Hershel Zuckerman
- Ned Vukovic as Morris
- Sara Sugarman as Naomi
- Peter Jonfield as Kapo Sturm
- Dijana Kržanić as Esther Terner
- Irfan Mensur as Kalimali
- Zoran Stojiljković as Boris
- Svetolik Nikačević as Old Man
- Miša Janketić as Oberkapo Berliner
- Dejan Čavić as Kapo Spitz
- Zlatan Fazlagić as Weiss
- Predrag Milinković as Kapo Jacob
- Bozidar Pavićević as SS-Sturmmann Ivan Klatt
- Howard K. Smith as Narrator
[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]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Although the character wears the rank insignia of a sturmscharführer, he is addressed as "hauptscharführer" throughout. Wagner actually held the lower rank of oberscharführer.
- ^ The character wears the collar patches of a scharführer and the epaulettes of a hauptscharführer, but is addressed by the real Frenzel's correct rank of oberscharführer throughout.
[edit] References
- ^ "Escape from Sobibor (1987)". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092978/. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ Rashke, Richard (1995). Escape from Sobibor. University of Illinois Press. pp. 416. ISBN 978-0252064791.
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- 1987 television films
- British television films
- CBS network shows
- Films directed by Jack Gold
- Holocaust films
- ITV television programmes
- World War II prisoner of war films
- Sobibor extermination camp
- World War II films
- Yugoslav films
- Films set in 1943
- Films based on actual events
- Films set in Poland
- Films shot in Serbia
