Drama ·History ·War · Poland · 2021 · 1h 31m

The Champion

Mistrz

Director

Cast

Piotr Głowacki as Tadeusz Pietrzykowski "Teddy" Jan Szydłowski as Janek Grzegorz Małecki as rapportführer Gerhard Marcin Bosak as lagerführer Marcin Czarnik as Bruno Marek Kasprzyk as Ernst

Crew

Witold Płóciennik — Director of Photography Leszek Starzyński — Editor Bartosz Chajdecki — Original Music Composer Maciej Barczewski — Writer Leszek Starzyński — Producer Krzysztof Szpetmański — Producer

Synopsis

It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable.

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