Escape from Sobibor

1987

Action / Drama / History / War

32
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 10715 10.7K

concentration camp world war ii brutality poland smoke mine field

Director

Jack Gold Photo
Jack Gold

Top cast

Alan Arkin Photo
Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler
Jack Shepherd Photo
Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman
Hartmut Becker Photo
Hartmut Becker as Sgt. Gustav Wagner
Rutger Hauer Photo
Rutger Hauer as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.25 GB
968*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
2 hr 23 min
Seeds 12
2.29 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
2 hr 23 min
Seeds 23

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by sonshine-832-238715 8 / 10

Tamed Down For TV

Having known several people who experienced a portion of their young lives in a Stalag, this movie is rather kind to the Nazis, but because it was a made for TV production I suppose it had to be. The acting was quite good but I don't think women and men were actually able to fraternize as easily as depicted in this movie, nor were they actually as well fed as these "prisoners" appeared to be. I'm not sure how historically accurate the escape scene was as it seems impossible to me that people would choose to scramble through a barbed wire fence when 50 feet away there is a huge open gate. Lastly I wonder why no one thought to shoot the men with the MG 42 machine guns in the towers first and then escape.
Reviewed by briancham1994 7 / 10

Bloody and impactful

This film has very direct blood and violence but it is never used in a distasteful way. The filmmakers have done a good job with the graphic scenes that also have an emotional impact. Compared to Schindler's List, this film has a more hopeful tone but it has the same amount of tension. There are so many characters shocked by the constant brutality of their situation but they decide to take action instead of resigning themselves. This film is gripping from beginning to end, with incredible tension and stakes.
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