The Boxer and Death ( Boxer a smrt ) ( The Boxer )

The Boxer and Death (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Boxer a smrt
Alternate Title: The Boxer
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Slovenian ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Peter Solan

Written By:
Józef Hen

Actors:
Stefan Kvietik ..... Jan Komínek
Manfred Krug ..... Kraft
Valentina Thielová ..... Helga
Józef Kondrat ..... Venzlak
Edwin Marian ..... Willi
Gerhard Rachold ..... Holder
Jindrich Narenta ..... Dr. Gluk
Edmunt Ogrodzinski ..... Stasek
Janusz Bobek ..... Emil
Ján Kovácik ..... Ondro
Zdenek Kraus ..... Marian
Ludovit Ozabal ..... Halina
Magda Gödöle ..... German soldier
Jan Gec
Leopold Haverl

Synopsis:

The Boxer is a grim Czechoslovakian drama based on an even grimmer true story. Manfred Krug stars as the Nazi commandant of a wartime concentration camp. Considering himself a born pugilist, Krug despairs because none of the emaciated inmates are "worthy" of being his sparring partner. Spotting a potential boxer (Stefan Kvietik) amongst the doomed prisoners, Krug orders that the young man be fattened up for the fight ring. Kvietik at first resists Krug's demands, but agrees to box in order to stay out of the ovens -- and in the hope of negotiating better treatment for his fellow prisoners. Czechoslovakia's 1963 entry in the San Francisco Film Festival, The Boxer can be considered something of a forerunner to 1989's Triumph of the Spirit, wherein Willem Dafoe played real-life Greek/Jewish boxer Salamo Arusch.

The relationship between a concentration camp prisoner who was a boxer before the war, and the commandant of the camp who keeps the man fit to spar with.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 24 December, 2010.

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