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The Escape from Auschwitz (2020)
Truly awful
I'm a great one for making my own mind up, sometimes I've looked at badly rated films I've found to be treasures.
This is not one of those films.
I'll keep this as brief as possible, as I wish the director had done too. Ideally under a minute, but life is full of disappointments. I shan't comment in detail on the acting, other than to echo others who say it's awful. I've seen more emotion in a wooden fence. Actors who can't even manage a German accent? Puh-leease!
The straw that broke this camels back was the on-screen text informing the viewer that we were looking at KL Auschwitz in 1944. It's a basic historical fact that Kazimierz Piechowski and his three fellow prisoners escaped in 1942. It took me 20 seconds on Wikipedia to check my memory was correct, and yet a film company taking months to make a film somehow couldn't find the time.
If you can't even be bothered to get something so basic right, it doesn't bode well. I didn't waste time hanging around to look at the uniforms to see if they'd bothered to get them right.
The only silver lining to this cloud is that Piechowski died 3 years ago, so is not around to be disgusted by this unmitigated garbage.