The Champion

2020

Polish

6.8

♡ 7

83%

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

Maciej Barczewski Director

Marcin Czarnik as Bruno

Marian Dziedziel as Captain

Anna Krotoska as Maria

Piotr Witkowski as Walter

It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable.