History Film / EscapeFromSobibor

''Escape from Sobibor'' is a 1987 prison escape/war/Holocaust movie set in 1943, in the Sobibor extermination camp, where inmates who have been selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess.

Stars Creator/AlanArkin and Creator/RutgerHauer.

!!This film provides examples of:

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Out of the 600 prisoners they intended to help escape, only 300 survived]]
** [[spoiler:And those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only between 50 and 70 were confirmed to have survived the war, the vast majority dying in the weeks following the escape. The first by running into minefields, then later on by being caught by the Germans or handed over to them by Polish collaborators - if not outright killed by the latter. Others, such as Luka and Moses, simply vanished and were never heard from again.]]

* ConvenientlyTimedGuard: [[spoiler: One of the guards goes into a senior officers office and discovers him by spotting blood and following its trail, marking the turning point of the escape when they had previously gotten along without widespread discovery]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: Naomi [[spoiler: spits at Wagner's offer to spare her while killing her baby, both figuratively and literally. She then holds her baby and smiles defiantly as he shoots her]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sgt Wagner. Also Captain Reichleitner.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Used whenever a character is murdered. One exception is [[spoiler:when the Nazis execute 26 prisoners for trying to escape, and tell the others that anyone who averts his/her eyes would be executed too.]] The scene is shot from a long range, though.

* KarmaHoudini: Largely averted by the camp guards, who were prosecuted at various points after the war, or simply killed later during the war.
** Sgt. Wagner, on the other hand, was [[spoiler: found in hiding in Brazil. The Brazilian government refused to extradite him, but he was eventually found dead with a knife embedded in his chest. The local courts just decide to rule it a suicide.]]
* LesCollaborateurs: Deconstructed with the Kapos. Kapo Berliner provides the most straight example.

** Also the leaders of the revolt when SS reinforcements unexpectedly arrive at the camp on the planned day of the escape. [[spoiler: They are forced to postpone the escape until the next day.]]

* RousingSpeech: Leon and Sasha give one to the prisoners, just before they break out.

* WouldHurtAChild: Sgt Wagner [[spoiler: outright shoots an infant!]]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Inverted: One of the inmates quietly states "My family.." before hitting an elderly guard in the head with an axe. Subverted with the Szmajzner brothers, who are motivated in their escape by anger at the Nazis for their families deaths, but don't state this before taking down the guards.]]
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* Arguably, a DarkerAndEdgier version of traditional "POW-escape" films.

EscapeFromSobibor is a 1987 prison escape/war/Holocaust movie set in 1943, in the Sobibor extermination camp, where inmates who have been selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess.

See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4stuU9yc4k now.]]

** [[spoiler:It should be noted that Wagner himself is looking away while this is being done.]]

* Defiant To The End: Naomi [[spoiler: spits at Wagner's offer to spare her while killing her baby, both figuratively and literally. She then holds her baby and smiles defiantly as he shoots her]]

** It should be noted that Wagner himself is looking away while this is being done.

** [[spoiler:And those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only between 50 and 70 were confirmed to have survived the war, the vast majority dying in the weeks following the escape. The first by running into minefields, then later on by being caught by the Germans or handed over to them by Polish collaborators - if not outright killed by the latter. Others, such as Luka, simply vanished and were never heard from again.]]

** [[spoiler:And those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only between 50 and 70 were confirmed to have survived the war, the vast majority dying in the weeks following the escape. The first by running into minefields, then later on by being caught by the Germans or handed over to them by Polish collaborators - if not outright killed by the latter. Others simply vanished and were never heard from again.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Sgt Wagner.

** [[spoiler:And those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only between 50 and 70 were confirmed to have survived the war, the vast majority dying in the weeks following the escape. The first by running into minefields, then later on by being caught by the Germans or handed over to them by Polish collaborators - if not outright killed by the latter.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Largely averted by the camp guards, who were prosecuted at various points after the war, or killed later.

** [[spoiler:And those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only between 50 and 70 were confirmed to have survived the war, the vast majority dying in the weeks following the escape. The first by running into minefields, then later on by being caught by the Germans or handed over to them by Polish collaborators - if not outright killed by the latters.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Largely averted by the camp guards, who were prosecuted at various points after the war.
** Sgt. Wagner, on the other hand, is [[spoiler: found in hiding, and eventually is found dead with a knife embedded in his chest. The local courts just decide to rule it a suicide.]]

* ThoseWackyNazis: The main antagonists.

This film provides examples of:
!!Examples

* BittersweetEnding ([[spoiler: Out of the 600 prisoners they intended to help escape, only 300 survived]])
** ([[spoiler:And those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only between 50 and 70 were confirmed to have survived the war, the vast majority dying in the weeks following the escape. The first by running into minefields, then later on by being caught by the Germans or handed over to them by Polish collaborators - if not outright killed by the latters.]])

* ConvenientlyTimedGuard ([[spoiler: One of the guards goes into a senior officers office and discovers him by spotting blood and following its trail, marking the turning point of the escape when they had previously gotten along without widespread discovery]])

* GoryDiscretionShot - Used whenever a character is murdered. One exception is [[spoiler:when the Nazis execute 26 prisoners for trying to escape, and tell the others that anyone who averts his/her eyes would be executed too.]] The scene is shot from a long range, though.

* KarmaHoudini (Largely averted by the camp guards, who were prosecuted at various points after the war)
* LesCollaborateurs (Deconstructed with the Kapos. Kapo Berliner provides the most straight example)
* RedsWithRockets (They show up fairly late in the film, as [=POWs=])

* TruthInTelevision ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor#The_uprising Indeed]].)

* YouKilledMyFather ([[spoiler: Inverted: One of the inmates quietly states "My family.." before hitting an elderly guard in the head with an axe. Subverted with the Szmajzner brothers, who are motivated in their escape by anger at the Nazis for their families deaths, but don't state this before taking down the guards.]])

* WouldHurtAChild: Sgt Wagner [[spoiler: outright shoots an infant !]]

* ThoseWackyNazis