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Escape from Sobibor is a British film of genre Drama directed by Jack Gold released in USA on 12 april 1987 with Alan Arkin

Escape from Sobibor (1987)

Escape from Sobibor
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Released in USA 12 april 1987
Length 2h23
Directed by
Genres Drama,    War,    Thriller,    Historical
Rating73% 3.697853.697853.697853.697853.69785

Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British made-for-TV film which aired on CBS. 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 (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka). The film was directed by Jack Gold and shot in Avala, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).

On 14 October 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance succeeded in covertly killing 11 German SS-Totenkopfverbände officers and a number of Sonderdienst Ukrainian and Volksdeutsche guards. Of the 600 inmates in the camp, roughly 300 escaped, although all but 50 - 70 were later re-captured and killed. After the escape, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the death camp closed. It was dismantled, bulldozed under the earth, and planted over with trees to cover it up.

The screenplay was based on Richard Rashke's 1983 book of the same name. Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, and Rutger Hauer were the primary stars of the film. Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television). Thomas Blatt. Eshter Rabb who died on April 15, 2015, was a camp survivor who had assisted Rashke with his book and served as a technical consultant.

Synopsis

The film begins with a new trainload of Polish Jews arriving for processing at Sobibor. The German Commandant gives them a welcoming speech, assuring the new arrivals that the place is a work camp. Other SS officers move along the assembled lines of prisoners, selecting a small number who have trade skills (such as goldsmiths, seamstresses, shoemakers, and tailors). The remaining prisoners are sent away to a different part of the camp from which a pillar of smoke rises day and night. It is some time before the new prisoners realize Sobibor is a death camp, all of the other Jews are exterminated in gas chambers, and their corpses are cremated in large ovens. The small number of prisoners who are kept alive in the other part of the camp are charged with sorting the belongings taken from those who are murdered and then repairing the shoes, recycling the clothing, and melting down any silver or gold to make jewelry for the SS officers. Despite their usefulness, these surviving prisoners' existence is precarious, and beatings and executions can occur at any time.

Actors

Alan Arkin

(Leon Feldhendler)Joanna Pacuła

(Luka)Rutger Hauer

(Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky)Hartmut Becker

(SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Wagner)Jack Shepherd

(Itzhak Lichtman)
And :
Wolfgang Bathke
Emil Wolk
Linal Haft
Kurt Raab
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