Sunday, November 18, 2018  ||  4pm
The National Arts Club, Grand Gallery

Cinema Production and Alexander Pechersky Foundation 
with support of the Russian American Foundation present the first open screening in the U.S. of
Russia's 2019 Academy Award Best Foreign Film candidate, Sobibor. 

The screening will be followed by a special panel, led by the film director and actor Konstantin Khabensky, on the uprising's historic significance and why it remains little known.Released in Poland on April 23, 2018 the film commemorates the 75th anniversary of the uprising at the Nazi death camp Sobibor. Led by Soviet Jewish officer Alexander Pechersky, it was the only successful uprising of the prisoners during the World War II and became a symbol of the strength of the human spirit and to the ability to fight evil amid horror. However, the uprising never gained wide public attention, in part because Sobibor itself was among the smallest of the Nazi death camps.

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