Triumph of the Spirit(Movie, 1989)

Name: Triumph of the Spirit
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1989
Duration: T02:0:00
Rating: 3.4

| 2h | Genres: Drama, War

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Triumph of the Spirit is a 1989 American biographical drama film directed by Robert M. Young and starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay was inspired by true events, the same as the older Slovak film The Boxer and Death directed by Peter Solan. The majority of the film is set in the German POW camp at Auschwitz during the Holocaust and details how the Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch was forced to fight other internees to the death for the SS guards' entertainment. ()

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About Triumph of the Spirit

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Poland

Made by: Nova International Films

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN)

Translated into 19 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/08/1989

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia

Director: Robert Milton Young

Producer: Arnold Kopelson

Screenwriter: Andrzej Krakowski

Film Editor: Norman Buckley

Composer: Cliff Eidelman

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Triumph des Geistes - Ein Boxer in der Hölle"

Keywords: 1940s, biography, jew persecution, world war ii, concentration camp, boxing, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, boxer