Escape From Sobibor Page #5

Synopsis: During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow 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 hap
Genre: Drama, History, War
Director(s): Jack Gold
Production: Live Home Video
  Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
NOT RATED
Year:
1987
143 min
1,385 Views


Yes, Herr Commandant.

- Can I help you, sir?

- Here's a little present

for you. Put it to work.

- Tell them your name.

- We know Toivi, sir. We can use him.

Nobody asked you that.

I want a design in gold.

On the handle.

- A snake that winds

around from here to here.

- I'd be happy to do that for you, sir.

- But Sergeant Wagner,

he said that I wasn't...

- I don't want to hear about

Hauptscharfhrer Wagner,

just do it or I'll break some bones.

- Understood?

- Yes, sir.

Send him to compound 3 tomorrow morning.

Ask for me at the gate, Scharfhrer Bauer.

- I will have a gold piece, I want

inserted at the end of the handle. Here.

- Yes, sir.

Look at this.

Thank you.

See, the skin is the most nourishing part.

I've put a piece in your soup too.

Try it.

You must eat. The best revenge

is for you to survive.

- Itzhak...

- Hmm?

My family was murdered too.

Roll-call in 2 minutes. Come on! Quick!

- All I'm saying is that maybe somehow

we can use the Ukrainian guards.

- It's possible.

- How loyal are these Ukrainians to the SS?

They hate the SS as much as they

hate us, but they're mercenaries

and also known as shooting at them.

We use them all the time.

When we find gold or

jewels in the sorting sheds

we steal some of it sometimes and bribe

the Ukrainian guards to bring us food.

They get rich but at

least we stay alive.

- Whats your idea?

- Look, suppose we find the right Ukrainian,

we bribe him to bring us

poison. Strychnine, cyanide...

- Alright, we have

the poison, then what?

- Well, who serves the SS meals? The

butchers. We get them to do the poisoning...

- They're children, Samuel. It's

too much responsibility for them.

- You're right. The problem

is we are not soldiers.

We don't know how to

kill, we never have...

Roll-call, come on.

Sergeant Bauer wants me.

- What are you doing?

You're not allowed in here.

- Sergeant Bauer ordered me here, sir.

Wait here.

- What's taking Moses so long?

- Maybe he got lost.

No, here he is.

- Moses! Moses! Moses! What happened?

Did someone hurt you? - No.

- What is it? What happened? Tell us.

- I went there to get this.

- From sergeant Bauer. - Yes, I know that.

- I saw the shower place.

And there are no showers.

'Cause all the people who

go in there, are killed.

I saw the dead bodies.

Women, babies...

All twisted together. And prisoners like us

throw them on carts and pull them away.

Everyone who goes for a shower is dead.

Everyone. Shlomo, our whole family is dead.

- You knew this. You knew

and you didn't tell us.

- My family are dead too.

The sergeants, they said if I told anyone,

they'd kill me.

Our mother, our father and our sister

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