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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 * Bittersweet Ending
 * Concentration Camp: The primary, very unfriendly setting.
 * Conveniently Timed Guard
 * Arguably, a Darker and Edgier version of traditional "POW-escape" films.
 * Gas Chamber
 * Gory Discretion Shot - Used whenever a character is murdered. One exception is The scene is shot from a long range, though.
 * Great Escape
 * 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
 * You Killed My Father