Escape From Sobibor
Escape from Sobibor (EFS) (VHS/DVD, 1987) is a retelling of actual events that occurred in the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland, detailing the largest escape from a Nazi camp in WW2.
Sobibor was the most secret Nazi death camp, made more secret by the fact that it was shut down after the uprising and made to look like a farm. Sobibor therefore was unable to become a human slaughterhouse on the scale of Birkenau (though the 250,000 deaths that occurred there are deplorable enough.) The film begins in the camp, and the first section of the film demonstrates some of the spontaneous, disorganized, and somewhat individualistic attempts at escape that end in failure and death. Also shown are acts of Nazi retribution, and routine brutality. EFS does not flinch at demonstrating the cruelty of the Capos (Jewish collaborators who acted as camp guards), most of them treacherous fiends. This is standard fare for Holocaust films, but the history portrayed in EFS turns in a different......
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