David
Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, David Chandler,
Allan Corduner |
Directed by: Tim Blake Nelson
Written by: Tim Blake Nelson
Produced by: Avi Lerner, Dan Lerner, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Pam Koffler
Distributor: Lions Gate Films |
US:
18/10/02 UK: 00/00/02 |
Based
on actual events. The story of the Auschwitz's twelfth
Sonderkommando - one of the thirteen consecutive 'Special
Squads' of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis to help
exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months
of life. This film chronicles the Sonderkommando's struggle
to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take
place at Auschwitz. As the rebellion is about to commence,
a group from the unit discovers a fourteen-year-old
girl who has miraculously survived a gassing. A catalyst
for their desperate attempt at personal redemption,
the men become obsessed with saving this one child even
as doing so endangers the uprising which could save
thousands. From inside the working organs of the infamous
Auschwitz death camp, this film asks to what terrible
lengths we are willing to go to save our own lives,
and what in turn we would sacrifice to save the lives
of others. |
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Steve
Buscemi, Daniel Benzali, Kamelia Grigorova and David
Chandler as Jewish prisoners recreate the depravity
of Auschwitz
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