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Triumph of the Spirit is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Malcolm Young released in USA on 8 december 1989 with Willem Dafoe

Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

Triumph of the Spirit
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Released in USA 8 december 1989
Length 2h
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Biography
Rating67% 3.396343.396343.396343.396343.39634

Triumph of the Spirit is a 1989 American film directed by Robert M. Young and starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos. It is a remake of the Slovak film The Boxer and Death directed by Peter Solan. The majority of the film is set in the death camp at Auschwitz during the Holocaust and details how the Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch was forced to fight other internees to the death for the SS guards' entertainment. Prior to Triumph of the Spirit, no major feature film had ever been shot on location at Auschwitz.

Synopsis

A stevedore in Thessaloniki, Greece, Salamo Arouch's passion is boxing. Captured along with his family and fiance Allegra in 1943 and interned in Auschwitz, Arouch is used by his SS captors as entertainment, forced to box against fellow prisoners. He knows that if he refuses, his family will be punished; if he wins, he will be given extra rations which he can share with them; if he loses, he will be sent to the gas chamber. As his family and friends die around him, he has only his love of Allegra and his grim determination to keep him alive.

Actors

Willem Dafoe

(Salamo Arouch)Edward James Olmos

(Gypsy)Robert Loggia

(Father Arouch)Costas Mandylor

(Avram)Hartmut Becker
And :
Edward Żentara
Lew Rywin
Maria Probosz
Roman Kłosowski
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