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Synopsis: The true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was one of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Special Squads of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. Together, the Sonderkommandos struggled to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz. As the rebellion is about to commence, a group from the unit discovers a 14-year-old girl who has miraculously survived a gassing. A catalyst for their desperate attempt at personal redemption, the men become obsessed with saving this one child, even if doing so endangers the uprising which could save thousands. To what terrible lengths are we willing to go to save our own lives, and what in turn would we sacrifice to save the lives of others?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Director(s): Tim Blake Nelson
Production: Lions Gate Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
R
Year:
2001
108 min
Website
277 Views


I don't make you do anything.

Be like them, both of you.

That isn't

what she's saying.

The whole barracks will be punished.

They'll be before they're killed.

Just like us.

What's the f***ing difference

when you're dead anyway?

We made the choice,

they haven't.

I'm not listening

to this anymore.

Make sure these get into the cart.

How many bodies are there?

Eight.

You see, that's good.

The more bodies the better.

Get it?

I'll just take these two.

Idiots.

Is she right?

Of course she's right.

What have you been thinking

for the past two months?

I just wish I could slap the sh*t

out of her is all.

Ist ein problem?

Ist ein problem?

Kine Problem.

I feel sorry for the world

if we don't win the war.

It's your position.

Men are tribal.

We'll end that.

There'll be one one tribe.

No war.

There've been wars

within your tribe.

Yes?

Rhoem? The Night

of the Long Knives.

You know a good deal

about Germany.

That, of course,

was a putsch.

What's the difference?

A putsch is not a war.

It's a kind of war.

It's a putsch. If it meant war,

the word would be unnecessary.

Why have two words

for the same thing?

I'm German, you're Hungarian.

I should think I'd be the authority

in this room on the German language.

Of course.

In spite of your obvious

ntelligence.

Of course.

There's a rumor around the Number 3

Crematorium there'll be a rebellion.

The Number 3?

That would involve the First.

That would involve all 4, originating

with the Poles in Number 3.

What would I know?

They think we're going

to kill them.

Don't you always?

This is the best kommando

we've had.

Alright.

You let them kinow that.

They don't trust me.

You're their doctor.

I'm their doctor

but they know what I do.

What do they do?

They work under gunpoint.

I won't tell them

what I don't believe.

That we'll let them live?

That you'll let any

of us live.

What happens to you has little

to do with me.

You're treated well.

Better than anyone.

You should let us know.

- They're not going to...

- lf you hear anything.

That's all.

Did you ever consider, Herr

Oberschaarfuhere, that these

headaches might be related...

Yes?

...to the increase, lately,

in the level of cargo.

Go on.

What I see in the courtyard, if

I just crack the window for some air.

Anyone would have diifficulty.

You shouldn't be looking

out of windows.

- I'm only suggesting...

- Yourjob is to diagnose.

Alright.

If I get upset, if my head aches,

it's because I drink too much.

Then don't drink so much.

That's right,

I won't drink so much.

But that too should stay

between you and me.

- I would never...

- That's right, you would never.

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