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The Boxer and Death (1963)

The Boxer and Death (1963)

Drama
Release Date: 1963, February 22
Directors: Peter Solan
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Štúdio hraných filmov Bratislava, Štúdio hraných filmov Bratislava
Cast: Valentina Thielová, Manfred Krug, Štefan Kvietik, Gerhard Rachold, Jindřich Narenta, Ľudovít Ozábal, Edwin Marian, Józef Kondrat, Edmund Ogrodziński, Jan Bobek, Zdeněk Kraus, Magda Gödölleová

Overview:

Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of his friend and co-prisoner leads to open revolt. The film brings a new view of human degradation during fascism by a tragic story of one man whose only chance for survival is to accept the rules of an unequal game.

Keywords:

sports world war ii based on short story escape boxer nazi concentration camp starvation prizefight boxing prisoner