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Sobibor (Russian: Собибор) is a 2018 Russian war drama film co-written, directed by and starring Konstantin Khabensky.[7][8] The picture also stars Christopher Lambert and was released on 3 May 2018 in Russia.[3] It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[9] It received generally positive reviews from critics.

Sobibor
Directed by	Konstantin Khabensky
Screenplay by	Konstantin Khabensky Aleksandr Adabashyan Andrei Nazarov Anna Chernakova
Produced by	Elmira Aynulova Nataliya Doroshkevich Kestutis Drazdauskas Mariya Zhuromskaya
Starring	Aleksandr Ilyin Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Michalina Olszanska Wolfgang Cerny Maximilian Dirr Mariya Kozhevnikova Philippe Reinhardt
Cinematography	Ramunas Greicius
Edited by	Yuriy Troyankin
Music by	Kuzma Bodrov
Production companies	Cinema Production[1] Fetisov Illusion
Distributed by	Karoprokat[2]
Release date	May 3, 2018 (2018-05-03) (Russia) [3]
Country	Russia
Languages	Russian, German, Dutch, Polish, Yiddish
Budget	$2.4 million[4]
Box office	$5.1 million[5][6]

Plot

The film is based on the Sobibor revolt which occurred in 1943 in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Jewish-Soviet soldier Alexander Pechersky, who was a lieutenant in the Red Army. In October 1943, he was deported to the Sobibor death camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. In just three weeks, Pechersky planned an uprising with prisoners from Poland and other locations around Western Europe. This uprising was partly successful, allowing roughly 300 prisoners to escape, of whom roughly 60 survived the war.

Cast

• Aleksandr Ilyin — Andrey
• Konstantin Khabenskiy – Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
• Christopher Lambert – Karl Frenzel
• Michalina Olszańska – Hanna (Cameo appearance)
• Wolfgang Cerny – Gustav Wagner
• Maximilian Dirr [de] - Johann Niemann
• Mariya Kozhevnikova — Selma
• Philippe Reinhardt – Siegfried Graetschus
• Felice Jankell – Luca
• Mindaugas Papinigis - Berg
• Saulius Balandis - Josef Wölf
• Dirk Martens - Rudolf Beckmann

Production

Initially the project was titled "Legend of the Escape".[10] In early reports, Andrey Malyukov was credited as director,[11] but at a press conference in September 2017, it was revealed that Khabensky in fact directed the film.[12]

Principal photography took place near Vilnius, Lithuania.[10]

Release

Samuel Goldwyn Films has secured North American distribution rights.[13] The U.S. release date is April 2, 2019.[14]

Response

Box office

Sobibor grossed $0 in North America and $5.1 million in other territories,[5][6] against a production budget of $2.4 million.[4]

Inaccuracy

Pechersky was captured by the Germans in October 1941, not in 1943. Sobibor was the site of one of two (not the only) successful uprisings by Jewish Sonderkommando prisoners during Operation Reinhard. The revolt at Treblinka extermination camp on 2 August 1943 resulted in up to 100 escapees.^{[citation needed]}

There are several inaccuracies with the place and cause of death of the particular SS-Totenkopfverbände members killed in the revolt.

1. SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann was not killed at the camp's armory as shown in the movie but rather in the tailor's workshop. Another inaccuracy with Niemann (played by Maximilian Dirr) is that the rank of his uniform. In the movie Niemann is ranked as SS-Oberscharführer however his real rank should be of an SS-Untersturmführer.
2. SS-Unterscharführer Walter "Ryba" Hochberg is referred to as "Berg" in the movie, following Alexander Pechersky's mistaken recollection. However, Hochberg's death occurred in the camp's garage rather than the tailor's workshop.
3. SS-Oberscharführer Karl Frenzel was not wounded during the revolt.
4. The are also inaccuracies in the decorations which Frenzel is shown as wearing: his uniform displays the 1914 Iron Cross 1st Class, and the ribbon for the second class award of the same decoration, as well as the ribbon for the Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918. He is also shown in some scenes as wearing the Baltic Cross, an unofficial Freikorps decoration. The real Frenzel was born in 1911, and so was unable to have earned any of these decorations.

Critical reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 75% based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10.[15]

See also

• Escape from Sobibor — 1987 television film about the same topic.
• List of submissions to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Russian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

• Official website
• Sobibor at IMDb 
• Sobibor at Rotten Tomatoes
• Sobibor at AllMovie
• Sobibor at Metacritic

На других языках

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- [en] Sobibor (film)

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[ru] Собибор (фильм)

«Собибо́р» — российский фильм в жанре военной драмы, полнометражный режиссёрский и сценарный дебют Константина Хабенского. В главных ролях Константин Хабенский и Кристофер Ламберт.

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