Escape from Sobibor

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Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British made-for-TV film which aired on CBS. It is the story of the mass escape from the extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz and Treblinka). The film was directed by Jack Gold and shot in Avala, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).

On October 14, 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance succeeded in covertly killing eleven German officers and a number of Ukrainian guards. Of the 600 inmates in the camp, roughly 300 escaped, although most were later re-captured and killed. The escape forced the Nazis to close the death camp. They dismantled it, bulldozed the earth, and planted trees to cover it up.

The screenplay was based on the book of the same name written by the American author, Richard Rashke. Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacu"?a and Rutger Hauer were the primary stars of the film. Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television). Thomas Blatt, a camp survivor who had assisted Rashke with his book, served as a technical consultant.

Cast

In credits order.

Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler
Joanna Pacu"?a as Luka (Gertrude Poppert-Schonborn)
Rutger Hauer as Lieutenant Aleksandr 'Sasha' Pechersky
Hartmut Becker as SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Wagner
Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman
Emil Wolk as Samuel
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
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-Unterscharführer Fallaster
Henry Stolow as SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann
Ullrich Haupt as SS-Unterscharführer Josef Wolf
Patti Love as Eda
Judith Sharp as Bajle Sobol
Ellis Van Maarseveen as Selma Wijnberg
David Miller as Mundek
Jack Chissick as Hershel Zuckerman
Ned Vukovic as Morris
Sara Sugarman as Naomi
Peter Jonfield as Kapo Sturm
Dijana Kr?ani"? as Esther Terner
Irfan Mensur as Kalimali
Zoran Stojiljkovi"? as Boris
Svetolik Nika?evi"? as Old Man
Mi?a Janketi"? as Oberkapo Berliner
Dejan ?avi"? as Kapo Spitz
Zlatan Fazlagi"? as Weiss
Predrag Milinkovi"? as Kapo Jacob
Bozidar Pavi"?evi"? as SS-Sturmmann Ivan Klatt
Howard K. Smith as Narrator

Escape from Sobibor

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