The film is based on a true story that took place in the German-occupied Polish concentration camp of Sobibor in 1943. Lieutenant Alexander Pechersky, a Soviet-Jewish soldier who was serving in the Red Army at the time, is the protagonist of the film. Sobibor concentration camp was used by the Nazis to murder Jews, and he was taken there in October 1943. Alexander, on the other hand, was able to organize an insurrection of Polish and Western European political prisoners in just three weeks. The only successful rebellion throughout the war, this one resulted in the largest ever escape of captives from a Nazi prison camp.
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The film is based on a true story that took place in the German-occupied Polish concentration camp of Sobibor in 1943. Lieutenant Alexander Pechersky, a Soviet-Jewish soldier who was serving in the Red Army at the time, is the protagonist of the film. Sobibor concentration camp was used by the Nazis to murder Jews, and he was taken there in October 1943. Alexander, on the other hand, was able to organize an insurrection of Polish and Western European political prisoners in just three weeks. The only successful rebellion throughout the war, this one resulted in the largest ever escape of captives from a Nazi prison camp.
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