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Escape From Sobibor

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.

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This film provides examples of:

Examples

Bittersweet Ending (Out of the 600 prisoners they intended to help escape, only 300 survived)
Conveniently Timed Guard (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)
Arguably, a Darker And Edgier version of traditional "POW-escape" films.
Gas Chamber
Great Escape
High Octane Nightmare Fuel (Moses' discovery of the truth regarding the camp)
Karma Houdini (Largely averted by the camp guards, who were prosecuted at various points after the war)
Les Collaborateurs (Deconstructed with the Kapos. Kapo Berliner provides the most straight example)
Reds With Rockets (They show up fairly late in the film, as POWs)
Those Wacky Nazis
Truth In Television (Indeed.)
Where Are They Now Epilogue
You Killed My Father (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.)