Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

Directed by

Robert Milton Young

Genre

drama film, biographical film, boxing film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Jewish Greek boxer is sent to Auschwitz where SS guards force him to fight other prisoners to survive. The film follows his struggle to hold onto his humanity in a camp where each match could be his last.

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What happens

Triumph of the Spirit is a 1989 American biographical drama film directed by Robert M. Young and starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay was inspired by true events, the same as the older Slovak film The Boxer and Death directed by Peter Solan. The majority of the film is set in the German POW camp at Auschwitz during the Holocaust and details how the Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch was forced to fight other internees to the death for the SS guards' entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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