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| Escape from Sobibor | |
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| Genre | Drama History War |
| Teleplay by | Reginald Rose |
| Story by | Thomas Blatt Richard Rashke Stanislaw Szmajzner |
| 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 |
| 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 | 10 May 1987 |
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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.
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]
- ^ "Escape from Sobibor (1987)". IMDB. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ Rashke, Richard (1995). Escape from Sobibor (Second ed.). University of Illinois Press. p. 416. ISBN 978-0252064791.
- ^ "Stanislaw Szmajzner - Sobibor Interviews".
- ^ "Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television". GoldenGlobes.com. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017. (The film tied with Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story.)
- ^ "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television". GoldenGlobes.com. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ "Esther Raab, 92, Holocaust survivor". philly-archives.
- ^ "Esther Raab - Sobibor Interviews". sobiborinterviews.nl. Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ^ "Remembering Esther Raab Tenner, a Holocaust Survivor". 29 June 2015.
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