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Escape from Sobibor DVD 1987 Szökés Sobiborból / Directed by Jack Gold / Starring: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker
UPC 5999546331028 / 5999546330748
REGION 2 PAL DVD
MADE IN EU
AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0
SUBTITLES: Hungarian
Playtime: 169+30 minutes
English Summary:
Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on ITV and CBS. It is the story of the mass escape from the German 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). The full 176-minute version shown in the UK on 10 May 1987 was pre-empted by a 143-minute version shown in the United States on 12 April 1987.
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 murders can occur at any time.
Hungarian Summary:
Himmler 1942-ben elinditotta a Reinhardt-akciót, melyet a zsidókérdés végső megoldásának szánt. Három szigorúan őrzött koncentrációs tábort alakítottak ki Lengyelország keleti felén, ezek közül a legtitkosabb a Sobibor volt. A táborban fogva tartottak közül hárman hamar felismerték kilátástalan helyzetüket...
Cast / Szereplők:
- Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler
- Joanna Pacuła as Luka (Gertrude Poppert)
- Rutger Hauer as Lieutenant Aleksandr 'Sasha' Pechersky
- Hartmut Becker as SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Wagner[note 2]
- Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman
- Emil Wolk as Samuel Lerer
- 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 3]
- 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-Scharführer Fallaster
- Henry Stolow as SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann
- Ullrich Haupt as SS-Scharführer Josef Wolf
- Patti Love as Eda Fiszer Lichtman
- Judith Sharp as Bajle Sobol
- Ellis van Maarseveen as Selma Wijnberg
- David Miller as Tailor 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
- Svetislav Goncić as Gardener 1
- Bozidar Pavićević-Longa as SS-Sturmmann Ivan Klatt (uncredited)
- Erol Kadić as Gardener 2 (uncredited)
- Predrag Todorović as Ukrainian Guard (uncredited)
- Howard K. Smith as Narrator (American version)
- Jelena Žigon as Shlomo's Mother (uncredited)
- Rastislav Jović as Shlomo's Father (uncredited)
- Milan Erak as SS Corporal (uncredited)
- Miroljub Lešo as Escaping Prisoner (uncredited)
| Genre | Drama History War |
|---|---|
| Written by | Thomas Blatt (manuscript) Richard Rashke (book) Reginald Rose (teleplay) Stanislaw Szmajzner (book) |
| Directed by | Jack Gold |
| Starring | Alan Arkin Joanna Pacuła Rutger Hauer Hartmut Becker Jack Shepherd |
| Narrated by | Howard K. Smith |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom / Yugoslavia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Martin Starger |
| Producer(s) | Dennis E. Doty Howard P. Alston (co-producer) James Eastep (associate producer) |
| Cinematography | Ernest Vincze |
| Editor(s) | Keith Palmer |
| Running time | 176 minutes (UK/ITV - 169 minutes with PAL speed-up) 143 minutes (US/CBS) 120 minutes (edited) |
| Production company(s) | Zenith Entertainment Rule Starger |
| Distributor | CBS |
