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Wolfgang Bathke, Hartmut Becker, Hugo Bower, Henning Gissel, Klaus Grunberg ... see more see more... , Robert Gwilym , Rutger Hauer , Peter Jonfield , Joanna Pacula , Jack Shepherd , Henry Stolow , Sara Sugarman , Emil Wolk , Alan Arkin , Kurt Raab , Simon Gregor , Ned Vukovic , Mihailo "Misa" Janketic , David Miller , Ullrich Haupt Jr.

During WWII, Sobibor was a notorious Nazi death camp. This gripping, fact-based drama chronicles the courage of an inmate who managed the largest escape from such a place. Thanks to him, over 300 pris... read more read more...oners were freed. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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PG, 2 hr.

Directed by: Jack Gold

Release Date: April 12, 1987

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DVD Release Date: October 2, 2001

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  • March 1, 2008
    One of the best movies to come out about the Holocaust -- Edge of your chair action --
  • May 17, 2007
    One of two films that have made me cry, very sad story about a POW camp
  • February 14, 2008
    Hauer is a bit like Cage. One face fits all roles..Still a good movie though.
  • October 26, 2010
    Crummy acting, but the story is interesting and important enough to overlook that. Fairly upsetting, as should be the case with Holocaust movies.
  • September 19, 2010
    This is one of the most terrifying accounts of the atrocities which took place during World War II. In terms of realism it far surpasses Schindler's List, to the extent that it's quite frankly hard to sit through. But the sheer realism is also what make
    s it such an important pie... read morece of filmmaking.
    Plot/ Summary During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) 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... logistically precluding any ideas about tunnels or sneak breakouts. Indeed, to have such a mass escape could only mean that the Ukrainian guards and Germain officers would have to be killed, which many of the Jews felt simply reduced themselves to no better than their captors... thus making it a struggle of conscience. And therein lies the story, with the film being based on a factual account of what then happened at that Sobibor prison.
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    This prison that i have never hear of before reminds me of Alcatraz is so hard to escape but more then 300 jews made all because of Leon in this exciting prison movie. Yet there are better prison movies this is another one of those besties.
  • July 9, 2009
    Okay, so...yeah I watched it because Rutger Hauer was in it. So, what? But I don't think his face needed to be plastered all over evr movie poster for the film. It takes him an hour to get into the movie and even then, I kept thinking he was going to be a Nazi before he showed up... read more because of his damn hair. Plus, his thing with that woman was like the weakest plot line and made no freaking sense. :D

    But it's so much better than it looks, I promise. The plot is freaking solid and so intense. Some of the dialouge may be sort of weak but all of the Jewish characters are so interesting, and the scenes are placed perfectly to create great story developement. Some of the acting is lacking, but the script really was good. Maybe it's because I haven't seen a whole lot of films specificially from the Jewish perspective during the Holocaust, but it was pretty darn awesome. Man, this film reminded me how much I really, really hate Nazis.

    This is one film, that I wouldn't mind at all if someone had taken the script for and remade it today. Well, I'd take out that confusing ending.
  • October 24, 2007
    It's been over 20 years since I've seen this movie but I still remember some harrowing scenes from it, such as the Nazi officer killing a mother and her baby.
  • March 22, 2007
    The saddest movie ever. It clearly depicted the sufferings of the Jews under the German rule. Had me crying throughout the whole movie.
  • April 4, 2006
    O man, we had to watch this fer English, and i couldnt even watch it for half of it cuz it was soo sad! It's about concentration camps and stuff with the Jews, its really graphic and soooooo sad!

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