The Champion (2020)

Original title

Mistrz

Directed by

Maciej Barczewski

Genre

drama film, boxing film, historical film

Country

Poland

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 217 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The Champion is a Polish sports drama about Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, a real-life boxer who fought and won matches while imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. The film follows his struggles and victories during World War II.

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What happens

The Champion (Polish: Mistrz, lit. "The Master"), released in some English-speaking countries as The Champion of Auschwitz, is a 2020 Polish sports drama film written and directed by Maciej Barczewski. It stars Piotr Głowacki as Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, a real-life Polish boxer who became famous for his nearly undefeated strings of victories in the Nazi Germany concentration camps. The film also stars Rafal Zawierucha, Marcin Czarnik and Marian Dziedziel. The music was composed by Bartosz Chajdecki. This is the first full-length movie directed by Barczewski. The film premiered at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival on 8 December 2020. The Champion is notable for being the first film for which a foreign-language version (in English) was created in which the actors' facial movements are modified so that they appear to be speaking that language. The work was done using a technology similar to deepfake, proprietary to the Tel Aviv-based tech startup Adapt Entertainment, which bought the English-language distribution rights for The Champion so that it could serve as a proof of concept for its technology. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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