Escape from Sobibor /
Spanish title: Fuga de Sobibor
a Rule/Starger production in association with Zenith ; teleplay by Reginald Rose ; directed by Jack Gold.
, United States
- 1 online resource (2 video files (117 min. each)) : sound, color
Based on the book by Richard Rashke. Also based on an unpublished manuscript "From the ashes of Sobibor" by Thomas Blatt and "Inferno en Sobibor" by Stanislaw Szmajzner.
Director of photography, Ernest Vincze; editor, Keith Palmer; music, Georges Delerue. Director of photography, Ernest Vincze; editor, Keith Palmer; music, Georges Delerue.
Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Harmut Becker, Jack Shepherd. Narrator: Howard K. Smith.
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had been spared from the ovens, knew that they were on borrowed time and that their only hope was to escape... the only question was how to do it. However, because the Germans would kill an equal number of others whenever a group attempted to escape, the captives knew that if ever an escape was tried, all 600 prisoners in the camp would have to be included... --
In English or Spanish.
Winner of 2 Golden Globe in 1988: Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, and, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (Rutger Hauer) Winner of 1 WGA Award (TV) in 1988: Adapted Long Form (Reginald Rose)
Sobibór (Concentration camp)--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Sobibór--Drama. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Sobibór--Drama. Concentration camps--Poland--Sobibór--Drama. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Sobibór--Drama.
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