A Documentary. The last film by Claud Lanzmann. What they have in common, apart from the specific horrors each one of them was subjected to, is their intelligence, an incisive, sharp and carnal intelligence that rejects all pretence and false reason – in a word – idealism. By the director of the monumental Shoah.
, Ruth Elias and Ada Lichtman - two names of Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and ruthless savagery, and who, for this sole reason - but for many others too - deserve to be etched for ever more in human memory.
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A feature film. Based on thr true story of the Sobibor extermination camp uprising during WWII, led by POW Soviet officer Alezander Perchevsky. Sobibor was one of four cocentration camps in Poland and prisioners who arrived there were doomed for daeth. With the greatest odds against him, Perchevsky managed to do the impossible - in only three weeks he organised a daring revolt, which aided the mass escape of Sobibor's condmned prisioners. Some of the escapees were caught and shot, but thr rest escaped with Perchevsky and joined the resistance to fight the Nazis. The mass escape was such an embarrassment to the...