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SYNOPSIS
In this unique document, Claude Lanzmann confutes two cliches: that the Jews had no inkling of what awaited them in the gas chambers, and that they went to their deaths without resistance. The full title of the film, "Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.", refers to the place and time when Jewish prisoners in the Sobibor extermination camp staged a successful uprising, the only one, against the Nazi captors.
The story, which sometimes has the aura of a fairy tale, is told to the camera by Yehuda Lerner, who took part in the revolt as a youth. Lerner was taken from the Warsaw ghetto and sent to his first camp when he was 16. Before being sent to Sobibor, the brave and resourceful boy proceeded to escape from eight different camps in six months, each time having the luck to be picked up by German soldiers and taken to another place instead of shot.
Sobibor had been mentioned in "Shoah", Lanzmann's 1985 marathon, landmark documentary about the Holocaust told through the voices of its survivors. But Lanzmann felt that Lerner's extraordinary account deserved a film of its own.