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.
See it now.
 | This page needs a better description. You can help this wiki by expanding or clarifying the information given. |
Tropes used in Escape from Sobibor include:
- Bittersweet Ending ( Out of the 600 prisoners they intended to help escape, only 300 survived)
- (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.)
- Concentration Camp: The primary, very unfriendly setting.
- 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
- Gory Discretion Shot - Used whenever a character is murdered. One exception is 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.
- 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 ( 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.)