The FRiday Night Movie - Escape From Sobibor (1987)

Youtube ^ | n/a | n/a

[DemforBush]

Tonight, a gripping British made-for-tv film about the true story of the massive Jewish revolt and overthrow at Sobibor, one of the Nazi death camps inside Poland. Adam Arkin, Rutger Hauer, and Joanna Pacula star.

[DemforBush]

Rutger Hauer is especially good as the Russian soldier "Sasha." 7.5/10.

[DemforBush]

Previous offerings:

The Stranger7/10

Decision Before Dawn7.5/10

The Woman in the Window8/10

Plunder Road6.75/10

The Hitch-Hiker7/10

The Big Heat8.5/10 (Now blocked by youtube)

Stalag 178/10

The Enemy Below7.5/10.

Kiss of Death7.25/10

The Killers8.0/10

Stagecoach8.25/10

DOA7.5/10

Breaker Morant8.5/10

Detour7/10

The Flim-Flam Man7/10

Stalingrad7.7/10

Sleuth8/10

Evil Roy Slade7/10

Men in War6.75/10

Five Fingers/Operation Cicero8/10.

[DemforBush]

ping

[tet68]

Bumpfl

[dfwgator]

Highly recommend.

The story is that one of the inmates tracked Wagner down in South America and killed him. Bastard had it coming.

[gattaca]

I’ll definitely watch this.

[DemforBush]

Er, Alan Arkin. Not his son, Adam.

[DemforBush]

I think you’ll enjoy it. It’s really well done, especially for a tv movie.

[CorporateStepsister]

I’ve watched it and I first saw it in school while learning about the Holocaust and I’ve watched it on occasion. I’m never going to forget.

[CorporateStepsister]

Wagner died in 1883.

[stormhill]

Wagner died in 1883.

Gustav, not Richard...are you being funny?

[Travis McGee]

Great 2nd Amd film. Why? The escape is all about the unarmed prisoners vs the well armed SS and local militia guards. Most of the plot revolves around making knives in secret, and using them to take weapons from guards and from the armory. Without weapons, they were helpless slaves. With weapons, they were free, even if many of them were killed in the escape, they died free. And many did escape.

Great film, period.

[CorporateStepsister]

Got the wrong guy, I’ll be sure to look it up soon.