The setting of the camp is incorrect. Sobibor was a temporary settlement built in the countryside, mostly built out of wood. This movie was shot on a permanent industrial location and has too many brick buildings. Parts looks like a fortress that's been there a long time.(were they going for an Auschwitz look?)
The 1987 movie about this subject was a lot more historical underbuilt. The story itself is dramatic enough, no need for melodrama. Watch the 1987 film if you're interested in the Sobibor Escape.
This movie felt like I was watching a schoolplay improvisation that used the backstory of Sobibor. No character developement whatsoever.
The Christopher Lambert character was a joke like most of the other nazi's. Caricatures. The drunken guards having sadistic fun with the prisoners in Sobibor is more artistic freedom I take issue with. The camp was run very disciplined, like clockwork.
The purpose of the camp was extermination. They needed the inmates to do the dirty work and left them alone as long as the work was being done. I get it, the Nazis were bad. No need to turn it into an orgie of sadistic violence.
If you take this much artistic freedom with the historic source material why not make a fantasy movie? That way you can do whatever you want without people getting disturbed by the inacuracies.
Exploitation movie and a waste of effort.
The 1987 movie about this subject was a lot more historical underbuilt. The story itself is dramatic enough, no need for melodrama. Watch the 1987 film if you're interested in the Sobibor Escape.
This movie felt like I was watching a schoolplay improvisation that used the backstory of Sobibor. No character developement whatsoever.
The Christopher Lambert character was a joke like most of the other nazi's. Caricatures. The drunken guards having sadistic fun with the prisoners in Sobibor is more artistic freedom I take issue with. The camp was run very disciplined, like clockwork.
The purpose of the camp was extermination. They needed the inmates to do the dirty work and left them alone as long as the work was being done. I get it, the Nazis were bad. No need to turn it into an orgie of sadistic violence.
If you take this much artistic freedom with the historic source material why not make a fantasy movie? That way you can do whatever you want without people getting disturbed by the inacuracies.
Exploitation movie and a waste of effort.