Interesting movie about the known breakout from horrible concentration camp .This notable movie deals with extermination center Sobibór and the subsequent getaway. As Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky leads and organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 . We see horrors , murders and slaughters against the disgraced prisoners who live with the spectre of a violent and sudden death . Thus , when the incoming transports , mostly Jews , SS soldiers made instant decisions , those who were fit to labors were sent into the camp , others including the children , were dispatched immediately to the gas chambers where approximately one-quarter million Jews were executed . Every day the prisoners have to endure untold cruelty at the hands of the guards and . The flick is nicely starred by Konstantin Khabenskiy as prisoner Alexander Pechersky and Christopher Lambert as ruthless commandant Karl Frenzel . Remaining support cast , though unknown provide fine interpretations. The movie contains an engaging storyline based on the book by Ilya Vasiliev: "Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality" , getting a breathtaking and exciting getaway with a sensitive musical score . The film was well realized , developing compellingly the historical recreation of the tortures , distresses , penury , mistreats and massacres of the unfortunate prisoners and eventually the famous escape from the Nazi Death Camp Sobibor . The motion picture was professionally directed by Konstantin Khabenskiy who also stars an essential role giving nice acting . There's another version about this events ¨Escape from Sobibor¨ (1987) by Jack Gold with great actors as Alan Arkin , Joanna Pacula and Rutger Hauer .
The picture is based on real events , these are the following ones : Sobibór , Chelmno , Belzec and Treblinka were four large death camps in the Lublin district of Poland transformed into extermination centers to implement the policy of genocide thought at the Wannsee Conference . Sobibór was an extermination camp of killing center of Jews , part of their Final Solution , including children and located near the Bug River on the border of the German occupied eastern territories . Some 35.000 Dutch Jews , originally assigned to Auschwitz were sent to Sobibór . All four camps were under the command of SS Odilo Globocnick . There was some minor industrial activity linked to the war effort but the main work was the execution of inmates . Victims were brought to the camp in unventilated transports , and all but a handful were gassed after arrival , the gas chambers could accommodate hundred prisoners at one time , most of their corpses were burned in open pits . On October 14, 1943 about 150 inmates broke out in a desperate riot . Of approximately 600 prisoners who attempted escaped in October 1943 , around 300 succeeded . However, nearly all were ultimately recaptured ; only about 60 people survived . Sobibor along with Treblinka and Belzec , was evacuated in the fall of 1943.
