'SOBIBOR' TEASER
WITH CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT
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| Sobibor hits Russian cinemas sometime this year |
SOBIBOR is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp
uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was
a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a
revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Part of the escapees
were later
caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to escape and
joined the partisans.
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| Rutger Hauer starred in the 1987 movie on Sobibor |
DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON
At least 250,000 Russians and Jews were murdered in gas chambers in SOBIBOR by the Nazis. This number makes it the fourth worst extermination camp from World War II. Out of 600 prisoners who tried to escape in the revolt, only about 50 succeeded. Shortly after the revolt, the Germans closed the camp, bulldozed the earth, and planted it over with pine trees to conceal its location.
Today, the site is occupied by the SOBIBOR Museum, which displays a pyramid of ashes and crushed bones of the victims, collected from the cremation pits.
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| Prisoners were killed using gas from the exhaust pipes of a tank engine |
Looks good, but I don't know that we'll ever see it in Canada. No Russian movie seems to make it this far.
ReplyDeletethis one has an international cast, so it might have a worldwide release someday
DeleteNothing like trying to cover up the evidence of your unspeakable crimes under a makeshift forest. Disgusting!
ReplyDeleteIn my city the Hungarian Nazis used to just kick people off a small cliff close to my old house, we still have a memorial monument A Bird with Broken Wings there.
DeleteBarbaric :( I hope a few of the kickers fell off in the process.
Deletemost of them were killed by the Russians and our Partizans during the liberation! But we did loose two million people out of four million citizens in the two world wars :( Half of the whole country
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