Mediawan Adds Submarine’s ‘Sobibor – Escape from History,’ ‘Godard Cinema’ to Premium Documentary Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent As it continues ramping up its premium docu slate, Mediawan has boarded “Sobibor – Escape from History,” a four-part documentary which is being developed by leading Dutch banner Submarine (“Last Hijack”).
In the documentary series, the infamous death camp will be portrayed through the eyes of the rebels and survivors. It will tell the epic true story of a group of Jewish prisoners who managed to escape from inside the living hell of a Nazi concentration camp and attempt to rebuild their lives.
Some seeked retribution, others redemption. Their children struggle to this day in different ways with the trauma of their parents.
The series also follows two surviving relatives, a daughter and a niece who return to Poland, to their ancestral villages where their relatives were banished.
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