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Film / 2021
The Champion
Directed by
Maciej Barczewski
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Piotr GłowackiTadeusz Pietrzykowski "Teddy"
Jan SzydłowskiJanek
Grzegorz Małeckirapportführer Gerhard
Marcin Bosaklagerführer
Marcin CzarnikBruno
Marek KasprzykErnst
Piotr WitkowskiWalter
Marian Dziędzielrotmistrz
Rafał ZawieruchaKlimko
Kamil SzeptyckiKropp
Marianna PawliszHelcia
Zbigniew PaterakLekarz
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Agata MieniukAna
Miłosz KwiecieńRudi
Hugh Hanleyoficer z Neuengamme
Michał Pluskota"Hammerschlag"
DandrisCzesław Jaszczyński "Bumbo"
Mateusz Broda
Jarek WiduchZachar
Anna Krotoskanurse Maria
Marek Kossakowskimuslim
Grzegorz ArtmanMordechaj
Andrzej PieczyńskiFranciscan
Konrad OstrowskiMax
Jacek Króldrunk SS man
Tomasz WięcekSS man
Paweł Jusińskibearded man
Marcel Nóżka
Dariusz Pierógprisoner nr 146
Łukasz Czubakprisoner nr 934
Piotr Nowacki
Szymon Burnospianist
Tomasz Lewandowskiprisoner
Kajetan Mirosprisoner
Greta Burzyńskamother with a baby
Jeremi Nóżka
Ryszard Klugecarpenter
Klara Williamsnurse
Konrad Marszałek
Wojciech P. Wiesiołek
Jonas Blankenheim
Julia Stawicka
Oleksandr Ilashchuk
Remigiusz Kramek
Dawid Damasiewiczhairdresser
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