***A lot of tearful idiots enjoy this movie simply because it is supposedly an holocaust movie. As if cheering for bad movies that depicts horrible hate crimes makes you a better person. And as if not liking this would make you a holocaust denier. Yes it happened. But almost nothing depicted in that movie happened the way it did.***
Back in the good old soviet days (1985), the Russians made one of the greatest movies about war and nazi atrocities. This was Come and See. A haunting movie with brutal imagery that despite being incredibly traumatizing managed to stay pretty historical.
In 2018 they made this movie. Which is the complete opposite.
This movie deals with the Sobibor revolt. There was a movie in 1987 called Escape from Sobibor that dealt with the same events. Except that the 87 movie is pretty much spot on and this one is complete fiction and garbage.
Christophe Lambert plays Frenzel, an SS officer. He looks old and decrepit and a bit like Boris Karloff in the mummy. The real Frenzel was 32 and had a baby face. In fact all camp SS were pretty young. His acting is cringe worthy and some nonsensical scenes are inserted so that we all understand how evil he is... as if supervising the killing of whole families wasn't evil enough. For those who saw the movie... remember "MEIN VATER MEIN VATER!!!"
At the beginning of the movie we see a voyeuristic gassing of naked women, for shock factor I guess. No research was ever done on the subject, nothing is close to how it happened in this camp. In fact the whole camp looks like a factory, the real one was a couple of houses in a wooded area with large pyres next to a gas chamber hidden in the woods with a path leading to it. Prisoners had to undress in a building then they came out on a path and walked a few meters outside and entered a small building posing as showers, a VERY SMALL building. They diesel engines were started and people died from the exhaust fumes, nothing like that half assed movie showed.
There is a drunken SS party, which eats up time that could be spent telling the real story of the camp. Someone gets burned alive using cognac as fuel... which is completely impossible.
Quite simply, the way everybody behaves in this movie is insulting to the victims of the real events. The whole movie's purpose is to enhance the manlyhood of the main russian prisonner, to show how badass and manly he is. This unfortunately seems to be a general trend in modern russian war movies. Is this due to this country's tendency to slowly drift toward fascism and the associated macho cult that goes hand in hand with it?
If this is the case, how terribly ironic.
Stick with the 1987 movie.
Back in the good old soviet days (1985), the Russians made one of the greatest movies about war and nazi atrocities. This was Come and See. A haunting movie with brutal imagery that despite being incredibly traumatizing managed to stay pretty historical.
In 2018 they made this movie. Which is the complete opposite.
This movie deals with the Sobibor revolt. There was a movie in 1987 called Escape from Sobibor that dealt with the same events. Except that the 87 movie is pretty much spot on and this one is complete fiction and garbage.
Christophe Lambert plays Frenzel, an SS officer. He looks old and decrepit and a bit like Boris Karloff in the mummy. The real Frenzel was 32 and had a baby face. In fact all camp SS were pretty young. His acting is cringe worthy and some nonsensical scenes are inserted so that we all understand how evil he is... as if supervising the killing of whole families wasn't evil enough. For those who saw the movie... remember "MEIN VATER MEIN VATER!!!"
At the beginning of the movie we see a voyeuristic gassing of naked women, for shock factor I guess. No research was ever done on the subject, nothing is close to how it happened in this camp. In fact the whole camp looks like a factory, the real one was a couple of houses in a wooded area with large pyres next to a gas chamber hidden in the woods with a path leading to it. Prisoners had to undress in a building then they came out on a path and walked a few meters outside and entered a small building posing as showers, a VERY SMALL building. They diesel engines were started and people died from the exhaust fumes, nothing like that half assed movie showed.
There is a drunken SS party, which eats up time that could be spent telling the real story of the camp. Someone gets burned alive using cognac as fuel... which is completely impossible.
Quite simply, the way everybody behaves in this movie is insulting to the victims of the real events. The whole movie's purpose is to enhance the manlyhood of the main russian prisonner, to show how badass and manly he is. This unfortunately seems to be a general trend in modern russian war movies. Is this due to this country's tendency to slowly drift toward fascism and the associated macho cult that goes hand in hand with it?
If this is the case, how terribly ironic.
Stick with the 1987 movie.