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The Champion of Auschwitz(Movie, 2020)

Original title: "Mistrz" (Polish/PL)
1h 31min | Genres: Drama, History
The Champion of AuschwitzRating: 3.9/5 (with 7272 votes)
The Champion (Polish: Mistrz, lit. "The Master"), released in some English-speaking countries as The Champion of Auschwitz, is a 2020 Polish sports drama film written and directed by Maciej Barczewski. It stars Piotr Głowacki as Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, a real-life Polish boxer who became famous for his nearly undefeated strings of victories in the Nazi concentration camps. The film also stars Rafal Zawierucha, Marcin Czarnik and Marian Dziedziel. The music was composed by Bartosz Chajdecki. This is the first full-length movie directed by Barczewski. The film premiered at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival on 8 December 2020. The Champion is notable for being the first film for which a foreign-language version (in English) was created in which the actors' facial movements are modified so that they appear to be speaking that language. The work was done using a technology similar to deepfake, proprietary to the Tel Aviv-based tech startup Adapt Entertainment, which bought the English-language distribution rights for The Champion so that it could serve as a proof of concept for its te... ()
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About The Champion of Auschwitz

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.

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Production country: Poland
Original language: Polish (PL)
Spoken languages: German (DE), Polish (PL)
Translated into 13 languages: Czech (CS), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Hungarian (HU), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 08/27/2021
Cast: Piotr Głowacki, Rafał Zawierucha, Marcin Czarnik, Marian Dziędziel, Marcin Bosak, Jan Szydłowski, Grzegorz Małecki, Piotr Witkowski
Director: Maciej Barczewski
Screenwriter: Maciej Barczewski
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"The Champion"

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