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The World Will Tremble

  • 2025
  • 1h 49m
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6.4/10
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The World Will Tremble (2025)
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
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The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Hol... Read allThe incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.

  • Director
    • Lior Geller
  • Writer
    • Lior Geller
  • Stars
    • Oliver Jackson-Cohen
    • Jeremy Neumark Jones
    • Charlie MacGechan
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    1.2K
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    • Director
      • Lior Geller
    • Writer
      • Lior Geller
    • Stars
      • Oliver Jackson-Cohen
      • Jeremy Neumark Jones
      • Charlie MacGechan
    • 14User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    Oliver Jackson-Cohen
    Oliver Jackson-Cohen
    • Solomon
    Jeremy Neumark Jones
    Jeremy Neumark Jones
    • Michael
    Charlie MacGechan
    Charlie MacGechan
    • Wolf
    Michael Epp
    Michael Epp
    • Lenz
    David Kross
    David Kross
    • Lange
    Michael Fox
    Michael Fox
    • Monik
    Danny Scheinmann
    Danny Scheinmann
    • Goldman
    Adi Kvetner
    Adi Kvetner
    • Felix
    Anton Lesser
    Anton Lesser
    • Rabbi Schulman
    Tim Bergmann
    Tim Bergmann
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    Oliver Möller
    • Mobius
    George Lenz
    George Lenz
    • Gustav
    Leonard Proxauf
    Leonard Proxauf
    • Oskar
    Gilles Ben-David
    • Aaron
    • (as Gilles Ben David)
    Ulrich Brandhoff
    Ulrich Brandhoff
    • Wehrmacht Officer Stangl
    Martin Petrushev
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    Uri Roodner
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    Gergana Pletnyova
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    10tonyangel-82351

    Utterly compelling

    The true story of the attempt to bring the news of death camps to the world. We think of concentration camps like Auschwitz and Majdanek. We don't think of death camps because nobody was held there. Jews (mainly) arrived and were dead the same day - usually within a couple of hours. These were the true death factories and because they left little trace we know little about them. This unembellished but utterly compelling, absorbing and terrifying and much needed - film sheds light on an explored and horrific true story. Brilliantly directed and acted. Attended a q&a with the Director, Produce and Iactors: the level of research and effort to tell the story as it truly was highly impressive.
    9whheee

    Look for this gem!

    Chelmno, Poland, 1942.

    The Germans invaded the country three years ago, annexing Poland's Western region. Jews have been forced into ghettos or deported to the East. A group of Jewish male prisoners are assigned by their captors to forced labor. They dig trenches in fields, where the bodies of thousands of primarily Jewish men, women and children are deposited after being gassed in trucks. A pipe from the truck's exhaust is turned back into the enclosed vehicle. You can hear the screams of the people as they are asphyxiated. Sometimes the gas isn't strong enough and the dying captives are shot in the head after the doors are opened.

    The Nazi horde has not yet perfected the use of permanent gas chambers to use for even larger mass killings, but they're close. The plans for Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec and Majdanek are near completion. Hitler's Final Solution: exterminate the Jews, Gypsies and Soviet POW's from Europe; 2.7 million of them consider Poland their home.

    The film, The World Will Tremble is based on the astounding but true story of a group of prisoners who attempt to escape certain death. Chelmno is a death camp, though the Germans who come into towns throughout Poland and forcibly round up the residents, tell the new arrivals "you have endured much. Now you will get wages, food.... Just put your valuables in one place and you'll get a receipt to retrieve them later." Obviously, he is lying.

    The Jewish gravediggers are forced to stand silently, knowing all on the transport will be killed. We're taken through the barracks, where piles of discarded clothing and household goods, formerly belonging to the now dead, are stacked to be raided by the Germans.

    Writer/Director Lior Geller follows the story of the men, Solomon Wiener (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Michael Podchlebnik (Jeremy Neumark Jones) and Wolf (Charlie MacGechan) who know that if they stay at the camp, they will surely perish, yet the thought of escaping strikes them as impossible. "Just stay alive" is the mantra they all follow, yet this is not living. The men agree that they are 'already dead'. The makings of an escape plan are hatched after one of the prisoners are forced to bury the bodies of his family who were just gassed in the truck, while the others watch and grieve with him.

    If you saw the film, The Zone of Interest, about the attempt to normalize what is going on in Poland in a house directly adjacent to the walls of Auschwitz, The World Will Tremble is its dark underbelly. Thrilling, yet devastating. This is humanity at its most depraved; many scenes are difficult to watch. This film is the first time Chelmno has been depicted on screen.

    If this brutality is what we know of the Holocaust, imagine what we still have no knowledge of. One of these men manages to survive and get the truth out to the world about what is going on in Poland. They know there must be an eyewitness account to alert the world that Chelmno is not a work-camp; it's a death-camp. The route he takes, the sacrifices made along the way, are gut-wrenching to watch. The world should never forget, never repeat the horror. Unfortunately, time erases and truth fades, as we are now seeing in present day across the globe.
    10Eitan-72

    A Harrowing and Eye-Opening Portrayal of the Chelmno Death Camp During WWII

    This powerful film is both compelling and difficult to watch. It is based on the true accounts of two escapees from the Chelmno Death Camp, shedding light on one of the lesser-known yet horrific chapters of the Holocaust.

    The movie reveals how Jews were deceived into believing they were being sent to labor camps, leading many to unknowingly cooperate with the Nazis. It then delivers a brutally honest depiction of how the camp operated-showing the systematic extermination of Jews upon arrival, and the horrific tasks forced upon the few prisoners kept alive, including sorting the belongings of the murdered, digging mass graves, and disposing of bodies.

    For those interested in learning more, search for "Szlama Ber Winer," the "Grojanowski Report," and "Mordechaï Podchlebnik" on Wikipedia.
    10JK-WhatsUpWeirdoPodcast

    Just stunning work...

    I'm sat speechless in the dark, and will go to bed soon, but this movie will stay with me for days. A no-build up, no sugar-coating, start right up bleak unflinching account of some of the cruelest acts in human history. Oliver Jackson-Cohen was incredible, the pain in his eyes was evident in every frame, I swear I could barely move the whole film. I just don't know how the real subjects of the film managed. How you muster that strength. Directing and cinematography was stunning, Score was beautiful, I don't pretend to know how anything works but I hope awards season shines on this film. 10/10.
    6brentsbulletinboard

    Moving But Needs Work

    The unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust never cease to leave audiences aghast and speechless, particularly when it comes to wondering how something like this ever could have been allowed to happen in the supposedly "civilized" world of 20th Century Europe. However, those of us alive today often fail to consider that news didn't travel quite as fast or as widely in those days as it does currently. So, when it came to news about the Nazi death camps that claimed the lives of six million Jews in cold, calculated fashion, word of the carnage didn't make its way onto the world stage until after it had been unfolding for some time. And, were it not for courageous whistleblowing efforts of two escaped prisoners from the Germans' first extermination facility in Chelmo, Poland, it may have taken even longer for the accounts to surface. Writer-director Lior Geller's fact-based release tells the story of two runaway gravediggers, Solomon Wiener (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and Michael Podchlebnik (Jeremy Newmark Jones), who fled the camp and made their way to the Jewish ghetto in Grabow, Poland, where they made contact with a rabi (Anton Lesser) who had connections to the Polish resistance movement. Solomon gave a full account of what was happening at Chelmo, the first reported testimony about Nazi atrocities against the Jewish community. This report was subsequently smuggled to London by members of the Jewish Underground, who presented it to the BBC for public broadcast in June 1942. And, at last, the world was aware of the butchery that was transpiring. From this, one would assume that this never-before-told story would make for a compelling film. However, when compared to other offerings about the Holocaust, this release, regrettably, comes up somewhat short. Perhaps the biggest issue here is the disproportionate emphasis that the narrative places on the already-well-known depraved and sadistic practices of the Nazis, events that account for nearly the entire opening half of the picture. As necessary as the depiction of these shocking and infuriating developments may be in setting the stage for what's to come, the amount of footage devoted to this part of the story tends to belabor the point. In fact, it's so prevalent that it nearly overshadows the heroic and more compelling account of the prisoners' harrowing escape, their tearful, gut-wrenching recounting about life and death at the so-called "work camp," and their exposure of the many lies that the Germans brazenly propounded about the nature of the facility. What's more, the picture could also use some shoring up in some of its technical areas, such as sound quality, lighting, editing, and a somewhat puzzling and uneven mixture of dialogue in German and English. To the film's credit, the fine performances of the three principals and its moving, emotive score help to make up for these shortcomings in a picture that gets progressively better the further one gets into it. And, to be sure, "The World Will Tremble" is by no means a bad film, but a number of other previous releases provide more effective accounts and treatments of this atrocity, such as "Sophie's Choice" (1982), "Schindler's List" (1993), "Remember" (2016), "The Zone of Interest" (2023) and "Lee" (2024), as well as the TV miniseries "Holocaust" (1978). Stories about this period in history are truly important and deserve commensurate treatment; it's nevertheless disappointing that this one didn't quite receive the handling it merits.

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      Israeli/American writer-director Lior Geller's paternal aunt was a child survivor of the Holocaust.

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      • March 14, 2025 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
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      • UFO Films
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