Sobibor

Sobibor

2001
Documentary
1h 35m
The title of the film refers to the exact place, day, month, year and hour of the most successful uprising ever to be mounted in a Nazi extermination camp. Yehuda Lerner was 16 years old on that afternoon, when he used an axe to split the skull of an SS guard. Before Sobibor, Lerner had managed to escape from eight other concentration camps where he was imprisoned. The film consists of material from Claude Lanzmann's interviews with Lerner in 1979. (Berlinale.de)
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Sobibor

2001
Documentary
1h 35m
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
86
96th
A very impressive record of remarkable and terrible events.
Rated 29 Jul 2009
58
48th
The cinematic amateurishness was one of Shoah's strong points. For Sobibor it is critically detrimental. At 95 minutes, the film is over twice the length that would have suited it. This is due to some stupid questions and very shabby editing but more primarily due to the redundancy of the vocal translation. It was especially tedious for me as a Hebrew speaker that instead of just letting Lerner talk (and subtitling that), Lanzmann had me reading English subtitles to his French translator too.
Rated 19 Apr 2019
73
78th
Sobibor is a compelling, if overlong, film about one man's miraculous tale of struggle and survival. Against near impossible odds, he somehow managed to escape his Nazi captors and avoid certain death. What's striking is how Lerner often relates these traumatic events with a knowing smile, presumably because he understands how goddamn lucky he was to make it out alive. It also provides evidence of actual Jewish resistance against Nazi forces by focusing on an event that isn't commonly known.
Rated 17 Oct 2020
99
99th
I consider this a continuation of 'Shoah' and so rate the film accordingly. Sobibor, just like all the other extermination camps, was a finely tuned death machine. To stop these production lines of death would require extraordinary actions against the Nazis, which is exactly what Yehuda Lerner and his fellow Jews managed to do on October 14, 1943 at 4pm. Lanzmann's pursuit of detail is almost obsessive, which seems required in order to adequately document 'the final solution'.
Rated 14 Feb 2024
85
64th
An incredible event and an extremely strong-willed individual at a time of immeasurable terror. The long record of transference at the end reminds us what systematic, daily atrocities those brave souls were rising up in, and that an uprising as such goes beyond any usual characterisation of a "heroic act".

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