"Escape From Sobibor" is a powerful film based on actual events that occurred during World War Two.
Sobibor was a Nazi extermination camp located in Eastern Poland. At least 200 thousand people were murdered there. Trains would bring captured Jews to Sobibor from all over Europe. Most of those on the trains were immediately sent to the gas chambers. A few of the new arrivals were chosen to do labor around the camp.
On October 14, 1943, the 600 inmates of Sobibor rebelled, killing many of their Nazi and Ukrainian guards. About 300 managed to escape into the forest.
Escape From Sobibor does not flinch at depicting the brutality of daily life in a Nazi extermination camp. There are shootings, beatings, and hangings, but one of the most heartbreaking scenes occurs when one of the new camp laborers( Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtmann) finds out that his wife and child were sent to the gas chamber.
Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler and Rutger Hauer as Alexander "Sasha" Pechersky do excellent work here. Hartmut Becker is chillingly effective as Nazi SS Sergeant Gustav Wagner.
In my opinion, Escape From Sobibor ranks as one of the best and most moving of the Holocaust films.
Sobibor was a Nazi extermination camp located in Eastern Poland. At least 200 thousand people were murdered there. Trains would bring captured Jews to Sobibor from all over Europe. Most of those on the trains were immediately sent to the gas chambers. A few of the new arrivals were chosen to do labor around the camp.
On October 14, 1943, the 600 inmates of Sobibor rebelled, killing many of their Nazi and Ukrainian guards. About 300 managed to escape into the forest.
Escape From Sobibor does not flinch at depicting the brutality of daily life in a Nazi extermination camp. There are shootings, beatings, and hangings, but one of the most heartbreaking scenes occurs when one of the new camp laborers( Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtmann) finds out that his wife and child were sent to the gas chamber.
Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler and Rutger Hauer as Alexander "Sasha" Pechersky do excellent work here. Hartmut Becker is chillingly effective as Nazi SS Sergeant Gustav Wagner.
In my opinion, Escape From Sobibor ranks as one of the best and most moving of the Holocaust films.
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