Escape from Sobibor
1987 television film directed by Jack Gold / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on ITV and CBS.[1] It is the story of the mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka). The film was directed by Jack Gold and shot in Avala, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). The full 176-minute version shown in the UK[note 1] on 10 May 1987 was pre-empted by a 143-minute version shown in the United States on 12 April 1987.
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Escape from Sobibor | |
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Genre | Drama History War |
Written by | Thomas Blatt (manuscript) Richard Rashke (book) Reginald Rose (teleplay) Stanislaw Szmajzner (book) |
Directed by | Jack Gold |
Starring | Alan Arkin Joanna Pacuła Rutger Hauer Hartmut Becker Jack Shepherd |
Narrated by | Howard K. Smith |
Music by | Georges Delerue |
Country of origin | United Kingdom Yugoslavia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Martin Starger |
Producers | Dennis E. Doty Howard P. Alston (co-producer) James Eastep (associate producer) |
Cinematography | Ernest Vincze |
Editor | Keith Palmer |
Running time | 176 minutes (UK/ITV; 169 minutes with PAL speed-up) 143 minutes (US/CBS) 120 minutes (edited) |
Production companies | Zenith Entertainment Rule Starger (for Central) |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 12 April 1987 (1987-04-12) (US/CBS) 10 May 1987 (1987-05-10) (UK/ITV) |
The script, by Reginald Rose, was based on Richard Rashke's 1983 book of the same name,[2] along with a manuscript by Thomas Blatt, "From the Ashes of Sobibor", and a book by Stanisław Szmajzner, Inferno in Sobibor.[3] Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, and Rutger Hauer were the primary stars of the film. The film received a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film[4] and Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role—Television Film or Miniseries.[5] Esther Raab[6][7] was a camp survivor who had assisted Rashke with his book and served as a technical consultant.[8]