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''Escape from Sobibór'' is a 1987 British MadeForTVMovie that dramatizes the 1943 escape of over three hundred prisoners from the Sobibór extermination camp. Inmates who were selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess to make it happen. The film stars stars Creator/AlanArkin and Creator/RutgerHauer; it is based on the book of the same written by Richard Rashke, and camp survivor Thomas Blatt (who helped Rashke with his book) served as a consultant. There were plans for a sequel, following the escapees of the camp trying to survive until the Allied victory in Europe, but it was canceled due to a negative reaction from the Ukranian government, over their perceived negative portrayal in the form of collaborating guards.
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''Escape from Sobibór'' is a 1987 British MadeForTVMovie that dramatizes the 1943 escape of over three hundred prisoners from the Sobibór extermination camp. Inmates who were selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess to make it happen. The film stars stars Creator/AlanArkin Creator/AlanArkin, Creator/JoannaPacula and Creator/RutgerHauer; it is based on the book of the same written by Richard Rashke, and camp survivor Thomas Blatt (who helped Rashke with his book) served as a consultant. There were plans for a sequel, following the escapees of the camp trying to survive until the Allied victory in Europe, but it was canceled due to a negative reaction from the Ukranian government, over their perceived negative portrayal in the form of collaborating guards.
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* HateSink: All of the Nazis qualify, being piggish, bigoted thugs who bully and terrorize the Jews for petty reasons. But even among them, Sergeant Wagner sticks out. He's a cruel, cold-blooded sadist who doesn't hesitate to murder anyone, at one point [[spoiler:shooting an ''infant'']]. In the extended version, Wagner is miffed that Shlomo and his brother are managing to avoid the worst of the suffering in the camp, and so he whips Shlomo out of sheer sadism.
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* HateSink: All of the Nazis qualify, being piggish, bigoted thugs who bully and terrorize the Jews for petty reasons. But even among them, [[TheDreaded Sergeant Wagner Wagner]] sticks out. He's a cruel, cold-blooded sadist who doesn't hesitate to murder anyone, at one point [[spoiler:shooting an ''infant'']]. In the extended version, Wagner is miffed that Shlomo and his brother are managing to avoid the worst of the suffering in the camp, and so he whips Shlomo out of sheer sadism.
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* HateSink: All of the Nazis qualify, being piggish, bigoted thugs who bully and terrorize the Jews for petty reasons. But even among them, Sergeant Wagner sticks out. He's a cruel, cold-blooded sadist who doesn't hesitate to murder anyone, at one point [[spoiler:shooting an ''infant'']]. In the extended version, Wagner is miffed that Shlomo and his brother are managing to avoid the worst of the suffering in the camp, and so he whips Shlomo out of sheer sadism.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Hurst is a sadistic bigot but he seems to have no illusions about what their doing, speaking sarcastically about how their doing their duty and how it takes heroism to turn on a gas valve.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Hurst is a sadistic bigot but he seems to have no illusions about what their they're doing, speaking sarcastically about how their they're doing their duty and how it takes heroism "heroism" to turn on a gas valve.
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* UncertainDoom: Of the three men who try to run away from the camp in the first scene one is blown up by a mien and the guards are seen firing after the other two but (at least in some cuts of the film) it’s never confirmed they gunned the two down before they reached the trees.
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Referring to a scrapped sequel that I read about in a book about Sobibor (although I can't find any confirmation for it online).
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''Escape from Sobibór'' is a 1987 British MadeForTVMovie that dramatizes the 1943 escape of over three hundred prisoners from the Sobibór extermination camp. Inmates who were selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess to make it happen. The film stars stars Creator/AlanArkin and Creator/RutgerHauer; it is based on the book of the same written by Richard Rashke, and camp survivor Thomas Blatt (who helped Rashke with his book) served as a consultant.
consultant. There were plans for a sequel, following the escapees of the camp trying to survive until the Allied victory in Europe, but it was canceled due to a negative reaction from the Ukranian government, over their perceived negative portrayal in the form of collaborating guards.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Hurst is a sadistic bigot but he seems to have no illusions about what their doing, speaking sarcastically about how their doing their duty and how it takes heroism to turn on a gas valve.
* BadassLongcoat: Sacha and several Russian prisoners wear ones.
* BadassLongcoat: Sacha and several Russian prisoners wear ones.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Out of the six hundred prisoners that the camp's underground intended to help escape, only three hundred made it to the forest -- and those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only fifty or so of those escapees were confirmed to have survived the war. The vast majority died in the weeks following the escape; they were either caught by German search squads, handed over to the Germans by Polish collaborators (if not outright killed by the latter), or vanished without a trace (e.g. Luka and Moses).]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Out of the six hundred prisoners that the camp's underground intended to help escape, only three hundred made it to the forest -- and those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only fifty sixty or so of those escapees were confirmed to have survived the war. The vast majority died in the weeks following the escape; they were either caught by German search squads, handed over to the Germans by Polish collaborators (if not outright killed by the latter), or vanished without a trace (e.g. Luka and Moses).]]
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* HopeSpot: Itzhak motions for his wife to claim to be a seamstress in the lien and for a moment it looks like she (and maybe their son) will be saved but the guards pass over her due to her young child and send them to the gas chambers with the others.
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* HopeSpot: HeroicSacrifice: When the guards demand thirteen people be executed along with the 13 attempted escapees, and force the escapees to pick them, there's one man who steps forward from the crowd without being picked, to save someone else's life, and keep one of the escapees from having to make such an awful choice.
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** Itzhak motions for his wife to claim to be a seamstress in the lien and for a moment it looks like she (and maybe their son) will be saved but the guards pass over her due to her young child and send them to the gas chambers with theothers.others.
** When the prisoners on a wood cutting detail here shoots that two men (who were by the river getting water and do manage to get away clean) have gotten away several of them try to make a run for it themselves, even though the guards are more alert at the moment and their inside the fence (although the gate ''is'' open). The Kapo are smart enough to grab a few men and stop them from running and those who try are caught and executed along with several others to make an example.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In a scene cut from the uncut version, Morris the carpenter suggests making some ladders for the escape and they turn up in the climax, being used to make it over sections of the fence.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Leon is visibly distraught that several people are too worn down to try and run during the escape attempt and spends several seconds racing along them vainly trying to prod them to run.
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** Itzhak motions for his wife to claim to be a seamstress in the lien and for a moment it looks like she (and maybe their son) will be saved but the guards pass over her due to her young child and send them to the gas chambers with the
** When the prisoners on a wood cutting detail here shoots that two men (who were by the river getting water and do manage to get away clean) have gotten away several of them try to make a run for it themselves, even though the guards are more alert at the moment and their inside the fence (although the gate ''is'' open). The Kapo are smart enough to grab a few men and stop them from running and those who try are caught and executed along with several others to make an example.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In a scene cut from the uncut version, Morris the carpenter suggests making some ladders for the escape and they turn up in the climax, being used to make it over sections of the fence.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Leon is visibly distraught that several people are too worn down to try and run during the escape attempt and spends several seconds racing along them vainly trying to prod them to run.
* KickTheDog: Quite often (sometimes in the form of slicing dogs on prisoners) but one sad example is the thirteen woodcutters caught trying to escape are forced to each pick the man who will be executed with them as an example. When they try to refuse their told that far more people will be executed unless they go and pick thirteen more people to be killed personally. And then they add that any prisoner who looks away during the execution will be shot with the 26.
* KilledOffscreen: Several prominent characters, such as [[spoiler:Balje, Porchek and Mundek the tailor]] are shot off-screen during the escape, with their bodies just being seen lying on the ground briefly as things die down.
* KilledOffscreen: Several prominent characters, such as [[spoiler:Balje, Porchek and Mundek the tailor]] are shot off-screen during the escape, with their bodies just being seen lying on the ground briefly as things die down.
* RiddleForTheAges: Sergeant Beckmann is walking towards the baracks (where a trap is waiting) when he pauses and then walks in the opposite direction. He isn't aware of the escape attempt at the time, but why he avoids falling into the trap is unclear.
* SayYourPrayers: At least one prisoner who chooses to stand and wait for death rather than running for the fence during the escape attempt is reciting a prayer.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Leon and several of his friends hang around a chessboard on occasion.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There's a certain gap between number of confirmed prisoners who died during or after the escape and the number absolutely confirmed to have survived the war. Of the characters in the film [[spoiler:Luka and Moses]] ''might'' have survived but it seems unlikely given that they never had themselves known or tried to contact anyone else after the war.
* WhipItGood: One of the guards orders Sholmo and Moses to make a gold engraving of a twisted snake on the handle of his whip.
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* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Inverted: One of the inmates quietly states "My wife and child..." 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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* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Inverted: One of the inmates Itzhak quietly states "My wife and child..." 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.]]]]
* ZergRush: The final escape has the inmates charging at the guards in masse and knocking down the fences.
* ZergRush: The final escape has the inmates charging at the guards in masse and knocking down the fences.
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* HopeSpot: Itzhak motions for his wife to claim to be a seamstress in the lien and for a moment it looks like she (and maybe their son) will be saved but the guards pass over her due to her young child and send them to the gas chambers with the others.
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* TheLancer: Shumel is Leon's most trusted ally and advisor at the start of the film, although once the Russian arrive Sascha arguably supplants him in that role.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wagner shoots Naomi's baby after killing her.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wagner shoots Naomi's baby after killing her.]]]] In addition to that there is an agonizing number of lose-ups of oblivious little kids getting off the troop transport at the beginning, soon to be gassed without any qualms.
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* CompositeCharacter:
** Some of Kapo Porchek's actions during the escape were actually done by his brother (another prisoner) in real-life according to the book.
** There's also only one guard named Wolfe when in real life there were two brothers with that name at the camp.
** Sholmo saves the lives of a cousin and nephew along with his brother Moses in real-life but Moses has the role of all three.
** Some of Kapo Porchek's actions during the escape were actually done by his brother (another prisoner) in real-life according to the book.
** There's also only one guard named Wolfe when in real life there were two brothers with that name at the camp.
** Sholmo saves the lives of a cousin and nephew along with his brother Moses in real-life but Moses has the role of all three.
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* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Leon and another prisoner, Esther, are cousins by marriage but this is never mentioned in the film.
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* GreatEscape: Over half the prisoners of Sobibor manage to escape by killing the SS guards and seizing weapons. It's renowned for being most successful of all escapes from Nazi death camps.
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* GreatEscape: Over half the prisoners of Sobibor manage to escape by killing the SS guards and seizing weapons. weapons, despite it being discovered, with many killed. It's renowned for being most successful of all escapes from the Nazi death camps.
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* LesCollaborateurs: Deconstructed with the Kapos; Kapo Berliner provides the most straight example. Others though are good men who help their fellow prisoners, with the privileges which they have used for aiding the escape.
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* LesCollaborateurs: Deconstructed with the Kapos; Kapo Berliner provides the most straight example. Others though are good men who help their fellow prisoners, with the privileges which they have used use for aiding the escape.escape. The rest at least don't stand in its way.
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* BasedOnATrueStory:
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp#Uprising This indeed happened]].
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner Sergeant Wagner]] was just as bad in real life as he is here, [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade except that he didn't even try to be polite to the prisoners before shooting them and was straight-up]] {{sadist}}ic.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp#Uprising This indeed happened]].
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner Sergeant Wagner]] was just as bad in real life as he is here, [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade except that he didn't even try to be polite to the prisoners before shooting them and was straight-up]] {{sadist}}ic.
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* TruthInTelevision:
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor#The_uprising Indeed]].
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner Sergeant Wagner]] is just as much bad in real life as he is here, [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade except that he didn't even try to be polite to the prisoners before shooting them and was straight-up]] {{sadist}}ic.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor#The_uprising Indeed]].
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner Sergeant Wagner]] is just as much bad in real life as he is here, [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade except that he didn't even try to be polite to the prisoners before shooting them and was straight-up]] {{sadist}}ic.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Out of the six hundred prisoners that the camp's underground intended to help escape, only three hundred made into the forests -- and those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only fifty or so of those escapees were confirmed to have survived the war. The vast majority died in the weeks following the escape; they were either caught by German search squads, handed over to the Germans by Polish collaborators (if not outright killed by the latter), or vanished without a trace (e.g. Luka and Moses).]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Out of the six hundred prisoners that the camp's underground intended to help escape, only three hundred made into it to the forests forest -- and those were the ones that survived the initial escape. Only fifty or so of those escapees were confirmed to have survived the war. The vast majority died in the weeks following the escape; they were either caught by German search squads, handed over to the Germans by Polish collaborators (if not outright killed by the latter), or vanished without a trace (e.g. Luka and Moses).]]
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* EmpathyDollShot: Rooms full of possessions belonging to the people sent to the "shower."
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The film uses this whenever a character is murdered. One exception is [[spoiler:when the Nazis execute 26 prisoners for trying to escape (actually only 13 tried to escape; the other 13 were randomly selected to die to further dissuade any future escape attempts) and tell the others that anyone who averts his/her eyes will be executed.]] The scene is shot from a long range, though.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The film uses this whenever a character is murdered. One exception is [[spoiler:when the Nazis execute 26 prisoners for trying to escape (actually only 13 tried to escape; the other 13 were randomly selected to die to further dissuade any future escape attempts) and tell the others that anyone who averts his/her eyes will be executed.]] The scene is shot from a long range, range though.
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* KarmaHoudini: Largely averted by the camp guards, who were either killed later during the war or prosecuted at various points after the war.
** Sergeant Wagner 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 ruled it a suicide.]]
* OhCrap: The Nazi guards' reactions to the uprising.
** Sergeant Wagner 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 ruled it a suicide.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Largely averted by the camp guards, who were either killed later during the war or prosecuted at various points after the war.
**war. Sergeant Wagner 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.stabbed to death. The local courts ruled it a suicide.]]
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* SlaveMooks: The Kapos. And Also to a certain extent the Ukrainian guards. guards.[[note]] Many (if not most) of them were Soviet [=POWs=] who either volunteered or were pressed into service by the Nazis.[[/note]]
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''Escape from Sobibor'' is a 1987 British MadeForTVMovie that dramatizes the 1943 escape of over three hundred prisoners from the Sobibor extermination camp. Inmates who were selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess to make it happen. The film stars stars Creator/AlanArkin and Creator/RutgerHauer; it is based on the book of the same written by Richard Rashke, and camp survivor Thomas Blatt (who helped Rashke with his book) served as a consultant.
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''Escape from Sobibor'' Sobibór'' is a 1987 British MadeForTVMovie that dramatizes the 1943 escape of over three hundred prisoners from the Sobibor Sobibór extermination camp. Inmates who were selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess to make it happen. The film stars stars Creator/AlanArkin and Creator/RutgerHauer; it is based on the book of the same written by Richard Rashke, and camp survivor Thomas Blatt (who helped Rashke with his book) served as a consultant.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner Sergeant Wagner]] is just as much bad in real life as he is here, [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade except that he didn't even try to be polite to the prisoners before shooting them and was straight-up sadistic]].straight-up]] {{sadist}}ic.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One of the Nazi officers expresses relief that his wife and children escaped the latest British bombing of Hamburg.
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* LesCollaborateurs: Deconstructed with the Kapos; Kapo Berliner provides the most straight example.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner Sergeant Wagner]] is just as much of an asshole in real life as he is here, [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade except that he didn't even try to be affable to the prisoners before shooting them and was straight-up sadistic]].
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Sergeant Wagner; Captain Reichleitner
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* TruthInTelevision: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor#The_uprising Indeed]].
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor#The_uprisingIndeed]].Indeed]].
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner Sergeant Wagner]] is just as much of an asshole in real life as he is here, [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade except that he didn't even try to be affable to the prisoners before shooting them and was straight-up sadistic]].
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor#The_uprising
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner Sergeant Wagner]] is just as much of an asshole in real life as he is here, [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade except that he didn't even try to be affable to the prisoners before shooting them and was straight-up sadistic]].
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''Escape from Sobibor'' is a 1987 British made-for-TV film that dramatizes the 1943 escape of over three hundred prisoners from the Sobibor extermination camp. Inmates who were selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess to make it happen. The film stars stars Creator/AlanArkin and Creator/RutgerHauer; it is based on the book of the same written by Richard Rashke, and camp survivor Thomas Blatt (who helped Rashke with his book) served as a consultant.
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''Escape from Sobibor'' is a 1987 British made-for-TV film MadeForTVMovie that dramatizes the 1943 escape of over three hundred prisoners from the Sobibor extermination camp. Inmates who were selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess to make it happen. The film stars stars Creator/AlanArkin and Creator/RutgerHauer; it is based on the book of the same written by Richard Rashke, and camp survivor Thomas Blatt (who helped Rashke with his book) served as a consultant.
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* BlatantLies: The Nazis tell all new arrivals that they're being sent to the "[[GasChamber showers]]" for decontamination.
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* BlatantLies: Blatant to the audience, anyway. The Nazis tell all new arrivals that they're being sent to the "[[GasChamber showers]]" for decontamination.
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* SlaveMooks: The Kapos. And to a certain extent the Ukrainian guards. [[note]] Many (if not most) of them were Soviet [[=POWs=]] who either volunteered or were pressed into service by the Nazis.[[/note]]
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* SlaveMooks: The Kapos. And to a certain extent the Ukrainian guards. [[note]] Many (if not most) of them were Soviet [[=POWs=]] [=POWs=] who either volunteered or were pressed into service by the Nazis.[[/note]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The film uses this 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 will be executed.]] The scene is shot from a long range, though.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The film uses this whenever a character is murdered. One exception is [[spoiler:when the Nazis execute 26 prisoners for trying to escape (actually only 13 tried to escape; the other 13 were randomly selected to die to further dissuade any future escape attempts) and tell the others that anyone who averts his/her eyes will be executed.]] The scene is shot from a long range, though.
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* DeathByMaterialism: The prisoners use a fancy leather coat to lure one SS guard into a trap. They even use the coat to restrain him while they're killing him.
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* SuddenlyShouting: "There will be no more escape attempts in this camp. I'll repeat that: THERE WILL BE NO MORE ESCAPE ATTEMPTS IN THIS CAMP!"
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* SuddenlyShouting: Courtesy of Sergeant Wagner.
--> Wagner: "There will be no more escape attempts in this camp. I'll repeat that: THERE WILL BE NO MORE ESCAPE ATTEMPTS IN THIS CAMP!"
--> Wagner: "There will be no more escape attempts in this camp. I'll repeat that: THERE WILL BE NO MORE ESCAPE ATTEMPTS IN THIS CAMP!"
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* 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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* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Inverted: One of the inmates quietly states "My family..wife and child..." 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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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wagner shoots an Naomi's baby.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wagner shoots an Naomi's baby.baby after killing her.]]
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* BearerOfBadNews: Leon and Samuel have to tell Itzhak that his wife and son were murdered. [[TearJerker He doesn't take it well.]]
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* BearerOfBadNews: Leon and Samuel have to tell Itzhak that his wife and son were murdered.murdered shortly after they arrived. [[TearJerker He doesn't take it well.]]
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* HeroicBSOD: Itzhak goes through this when told of his family's death. He snaps out of it.
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* BearerOfBadNews: Leon and Samuel have to tell Itzhak that his wife and son were murdered. [[TearJerker He doesn't take it well.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Schlomo calls out the other prisoners for working for the people who killed their families. Leon responds with IDidWhatIHadToDo.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wagner shoots an infant.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wagner shoots an infant.Naomi's baby.]]
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* RedsWithRockets: They show up fairly late in the film, as [=POWs=].
