Escape from Sobibor (1987) (TV)

Director:

Jack Gold

Writers:

Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt (manuscript "From the Ashes of Sobibor")
Richard Rashke (book)

Release Date:

12 April 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller | War

Plot:

During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in...

Plot Keywords:

Escape | Nazi | Jew | German | WWII

Awards:

Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 6 nominations

Cast

Alan Arkin	...	Leon Feldhendler
Joanna Pacula	...	Luka
Rutger Hauer	...	Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
Hartmut Becker	...	Sgt. Gustav Wagner
Jack Shepherd	...	Itzhak Lichtman
Emil Wolk	...	Samuel
Simon Gregor	...	Stanislaw 'Shlomo' Szmajzner
Linal Haft	...	Oberkapo Porchek
Jason Norman	...	Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt
Robert Gwilym	...	Chaim Engel
Eli Nathenson	...	Moses Szmajzner
Kurt Raab	...	Sgt. Frenzel
Eric P. Caspar	...	Capt. Franz Reichleitner
Hugo Bower	...	Sgt. Beckmann
Klaus Grünberg	...	Sgt. Bauer (as Klaus Grunberg)

Also Known As:

Bekstvo iz Sobibora (Yugoslavia: Serbian title)

Runtime:

143 min | 120 min (DVD version)

Country:

UK | Yugoslavia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Avala, Yugoslavia

Company:

Zenith Entertainment

Goofs:

Continuity: When Sasha moves in to help the man dishing out food who was beaten, an SS officer points a luger at him but in the next scene when he fires in the air and tells everyone to go to work he is holding a Walther P-38.

Quotes:

Leon Feldhendler: Did you know that tomorrow is the beginning of Sukkot?
Lt. "Sasha" Pechersky: Yes. 'Tis a Holy Day.
Leon Feldhendler: I forgot. And my father was a rabbi.
Lt. "Sasha" Pechersky: They kill on Holy Days. Why not the other way around? God will forgive.
Leon Feldhendler: There are those here who are wondering if we can forgive God.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Pianist (2002)

edge of seat!!!

I first got this out on video many years back. Being interested in the holocaust from a young age,and having traveled through Poland in the early eighties I got this out of interest.Amazing to think it was done for television and not cinema. I,was on the edge of my seat all the way through,could hardly breath all through the film,did not take my eyes off the screen.The ending is both shattering and uplifting.Even more so knowing the outcome of some of the lives. And how simply fitting a denouement on the end credits the result of the police investigation, give that policeman a medal. On the whole the acting is exceptional, and by that I mean one forgets the actor and sees only the person as real. In fact it has that real life documentary feel to the story. Most satisfying to have seen it before Rutger got semi-famous.