Acclaimed actor, producer, and writer Shawn Hoffman is bringing his award-winning Holocaust story Samson: A Savior Will Rise to life on the big screen. Based on true events, this gripping narrative follows male Jewish inmates at Auschwitz, forced into brutal boxing matches for Nazi entertainment during World War II. The story centers on Samson, a Jewish American Olympic middleweight boxer, who must fight against larger heavyweight German opponents, knowing defeat means death for him and his family.
Project Overview
Set during the Holocaust, Samson: A Savior Will Rise explores the horror of Jewish inmates forced to box in Auschwitz for Nazi officials’ amusement. When Samson, an American Middleweight Olympic boxer, is discovered among the prisoners, the Nazis pit him against middleweight German fighters in a deadly competition. The stakes? If Samson loses, he and his family will be sent to the gas chambers.
Key Team Members
Executive Producer: Gerald Molen,...
Project Overview
Set during the Holocaust, Samson: A Savior Will Rise explores the horror of Jewish inmates forced to box in Auschwitz for Nazi officials’ amusement. When Samson, an American Middleweight Olympic boxer, is discovered among the prisoners, the Nazis pit him against middleweight German fighters in a deadly competition. The stakes? If Samson loses, he and his family will be sent to the gas chambers.
Key Team Members
Executive Producer: Gerald Molen,...
- 08/09/2024
- par Peter Adams
- AsianMoviePulse
Jim Sheridan has dispelled rumors around a possible return to acting by Daniel Day-Lewis, who gave an Oscar-winning performance in the Irish director’s drama My Left Foot and also starred in his subsequent films In The Name Of The Father and The Boxer.
Rumors have been rife that Day-Lewis, who retired from acting in 2017, might be contemplating a return to the big screen after he was photographed by paparazzi coming out of a New York restaurant with Sheridan and Steven Spielberg in early January.
Sheridan said the trio had been holding a meeting about a possible reboot of his long-gestating project about the Kennedy family, focused on its social climber-patriarch Joseph Kennedy.
“We were talking about a project. Daniel was only going to be involved, if he did get involved, as an executive producer, not as an actor,” said Sheridan.
“It was on the life of Joe Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy family…...
Rumors have been rife that Day-Lewis, who retired from acting in 2017, might be contemplating a return to the big screen after he was photographed by paparazzi coming out of a New York restaurant with Sheridan and Steven Spielberg in early January.
Sheridan said the trio had been holding a meeting about a possible reboot of his long-gestating project about the Kennedy family, focused on its social climber-patriarch Joseph Kennedy.
“We were talking about a project. Daniel was only going to be involved, if he did get involved, as an executive producer, not as an actor,” said Sheridan.
“It was on the life of Joe Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy family…...
- 03/03/2024
- par Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Irish director Jim Sheridan has sounded a warning on the state of the international film industry, saying “the whole film industry is in the emergency room.”
Speaking to Screen in Doha, Qatar where he is participating in the Qumra event as a master, Sheridan said, “It’s going to be more the way in the future that film has been taken back to being an art form that needs to be supported. It’s in the emergency room, the whole industry and it needs to be supported by the state or switch off the lights.”
Having provided updates for multiple...
Speaking to Screen in Doha, Qatar where he is participating in the Qumra event as a master, Sheridan said, “It’s going to be more the way in the future that film has been taken back to being an art form that needs to be supported. It’s in the emergency room, the whole industry and it needs to be supported by the state or switch off the lights.”
Having provided updates for multiple...
- 03/03/2024
- ScreenDaily
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