During World War II Sobibor was a notorious Nazi death camp. This inspirational, fact-based drama chronicles the courage of an inmate who organised the only successful mass-escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Of the 600 prisoners held in Sobibor, over 300 managed to escape.
Directed by
Jack Gold
Written by
Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt (manuscript "From the Ashes of Sobibor" (as Thomas Blatt)); Richard Rashke (book); Reginald Rose (teleplay); Stanislaw 'Shlomo' Szmajzner (book "Inferno in Sobibor" (as Stanislaw Szmajzner)).
Starring
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)). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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