Warsaw, September 19, 1940: a Polish officer is captured during a raid by the German army. In reality, the SS have just fallen into a trap. This man has organized everything to be arrested. His name: Witold Pilecki. His mission: to be interned in Auschwitz, to infiltrate the death camp. This film traces the story of one of the greatest resistance fighters of WWII, through the compilation of reports that the infiltrator smuggled to London from the concentration camp where he was detained.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Palmyra Films, Effervescence Fiction
Keywords
- undercover agent
- concentration camp
- world war ii
- auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp
- concentration camp prisoner
- historical figure
- war hero
- field agent
- talent agent
- infiltrate
- semi-biographical
- prison break attempt
- prisoner of war camp
- hardly famous
- war documentary
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Top Crew
Ted Anspach · Director, Writer
Maya-Anaïs Yataghène · Director, Writer
Franck Vrignon · Cinematographer
Olivier Martin · Editor
Amandine Stelletta · Editor
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