The Champion
(2021)
★ 7.7 IMDb · 219 votes
Year: 2021
Runtime: 91 мин
Country: Poland
Director: Maciej Barczewski
Cast: Пётр Гловацкий, Jan Szydłowski, Grzegorz Małecki, Marcin Bosak, Marcin Czarnik, Marek Kasprzyk, Пётр Витковски, Мариан Дзендзель, Rafał Zawierucha, Kamil Szeptycki
Plot
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.