Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
The Champion
The Champion

The Champion

Genres

DramaHistoryWar

OverView

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.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$43663

Status

Released

Original Language

Polish

Runtime

91 mins

Rating

7.7/10

Release Date

27 August 2021

Country

Poland

Cast

Piotr Głowacki

Piotr Głowacki

Tadeusz Pietrzykowski "Teddy"

Jan Szydłowski

Jan Szydłowski

Janek

Grzegorz Małecki

Grzegorz Małecki

rapportführer Gerhard

Marcin Bosak

Marcin Bosak

lagerführer

Marcin Czarnik

Marcin Czarnik

Bruno

Marek Kasprzyk

Marek Kasprzyk

Ernst

Piotr Witkowski

Piotr Witkowski

Walter

Marian Dziędziel

Marian Dziędziel

rotmistrz

Rafał Zawierucha

Rafał Zawierucha

Klimko

Kamil Szeptycki

Kamil Szeptycki

Kropp

Marianna Pawlisz

Marianna Pawlisz

Helcia

Zbigniew Paterak

Zbigniew Paterak

Lekarz

Agata Mieniuk

Agata Mieniuk

Ana

Miłosz Kwiecień

Miłosz Kwiecień

Rudi

Hugh Hanley

Hugh Hanley

oficer z Neuengamme

Michał Pluskota

Michał Pluskota

"Hammerschlag"

Dandris

Dandris

Czesław Jaszczyński "Bumbo"

Mateusz Broda

Mateusz Broda

Jarek Widuch

Jarek Widuch

Zachar

Anna Krotoska

Anna Krotoska

nurse Maria

Marek Kossakowski

Marek Kossakowski

muslim

Grzegorz Artman

Grzegorz Artman

Mordechaj

Andrzej Pieczyński

Andrzej Pieczyński

Franciscan

Konrad Ostrowski

Konrad Ostrowski

Max

Jacek Król

Jacek Król

drunk SS man

Tomasz Więcek

Tomasz Więcek

SS man

Paweł Jusiński

Paweł Jusiński

bearded man

Marcel Nóżka

Marcel Nóżka

Dariusz Pieróg

Dariusz Pieróg

prisoner nr 146

Łukasz Czubak

Łukasz Czubak

prisoner nr 934

Piotr Nowacki

Piotr Nowacki

Szymon Burnos

Szymon Burnos

pianist

Tomasz Lewandowski

Tomasz Lewandowski

prisoner

Kajetan Miros

Kajetan Miros

prisoner

Greta Burzyńska

Greta Burzyńska

mother with a baby

Jeremi Nóżka

Jeremi Nóżka

Ryszard Kluge

Ryszard Kluge

carpenter

Klara Williams

Klara Williams

nurse

Konrad Marszałek

Konrad Marszałek

Wojciech P. Wiesiołek

Wojciech P. Wiesiołek

Jonas Blankenheim

Jonas Blankenheim

Julia Stawicka

Julia Stawicka

Oleksandr Ilashchuk

Oleksandr Ilashchuk

Remigiusz Kramek

Remigiusz Kramek

Dawid Damasiewicz

Dawid Damasiewicz

hairdresser

Similar Movies

6.6

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

April 2005 •German

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

6.9

The Murderers Are Among Us

October 1946 •German

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

7.0

The Liberation of Auschwitz

August 1986 •German

This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The film contains unedited, previously unavailable film footage of Auschwitz shot by the Soviet military forces between January 27 and February 28, 1945 and includes an interview with Alexander Voronsov, the cameraman who shot the footage. The horrifying images include: survivors; camp visit by Soviet investigation commission; criminal experiments; forced laborers; evacuation of ill and weak prisoners with the aid of Russian and Polish volunteers; aerial photos of the IG Farben Works in Monowitz; and pictures of local people cleaning up the camp under Soviet supervision. - Written by National Center for Jewish Film

6.6

Sobibor

May 2018 •Russian

The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. But, in just 3 weeks, Alexander was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising resulted in being the only successful one throughout the war, which led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.

10.0

Hitler's Forgotten Victims

October 1997 •English

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience.

8.2

Night and Fog

April 1959 •French

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

8.0

Judgment at Nuremberg

December 1961 •English

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

6.2

The Investigation

July 2024 •German

Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, in its intensity and graphically described detail.

6.5

Charlotte

April 2022 •French

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

8.6

Schindler's List

December 1993 •English

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

8.4

Life Is Beautiful

December 1997 •Italian

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

7.5

Au Revoir les Enfants

October 1987 •French

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

7.0

Amen.

February 2002 •French

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.

7.7

When We Were Kings

October 1996 •English

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

7.4

The Counterfeiters

March 2007 •German

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.

7.3

Train of Life

September 1998 •French

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.

5.7

My Führer

January 2007 •German

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ...

8.0

Hope Dies Last

August 2017 •English

A sickly scrawny man in a striped uniform takes a shaving brush and foam, and with a sharp blade, he shaves the back of the head of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz camp himself. They will never speak with one another, and Joseph (we only learn his name during the credits) will never harm Höss, will not stop the flood of horrible murders with yet another murder. This short sketch about life of a death camp makes us feel pain and grief of millions of people who had passed beyond the walls of the shaving room during the imprisonment of Joseph, the man who outlived his torturer.

6.6

The Grey Zone

September 2001 •English

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.

6.1

Story of Annette Zelman

September 2022 •French

1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean Jausion's parents decide to keep young Annette Zelman away from them... and denounce her to the Gestapo. The machine was launched, but it was too late. Annette was deported to Auschwitz on June 22, 1942.