''The Auschwitz Report'' ( sk, Správa) is a 2021 Slovak

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Peter Bebjak Peter Bebjak (born 1970 in Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak actor, director, producer and writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of ...

. It was selected as the Slovak entry for the Best International Feature Film at the

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, but it was not nominated.

Plot

The film is based on the true story of

Rudolf Vrba Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; 11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), German-occup ...

and

Alfréd Wetzler Alfréd Israel Wetzler (10 May 1918 – 8 February 1988), who wrote under the alias Jozef Lánik, was a Slovak Jewish writer. He is known for escaping from Auschwitz concentration camp and co-writing the Vrba-Wetzler Report, which helped halt ...

, two prisoners at the

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

who manage to escape with details about the camp's operation including a label from a canister of the pesticide Zyklon-B, used in the murders there. Once across the border into

Žilina Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Sl ...

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

, they are asked by the resistance to type up their recollections, which later becomes known as the Vrba-Wetzler report. The pair are eventually introduced to a representative from the Red Cross, who despite disbelief at their claims agrees to pass on the report to the allies.

Cast

* Noel Czuczor as Freddy * Peter Ondrejička as Valér * John Hannah as Warren * Wojciech Mecwaldowski as Kozlowski * Jacek Beler as Heršek *Jan Nedbal as Pavel * Christoph Bach as Schwarzhuber *

Florian Panzner Florian Panzner (born 20 July 1976) is a German actor who has been active since 1999. Life and career Panzner studied at the University of Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 2000, he played the role of Truffaldino in the comedy ''The S ...

as Lausmann * Michal Režný as Marcel * Kamil Nożyński as Juzek *Aleksander Mincer as Kaczmarek *Ksawery Szlenkier as Adamek

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* 2021 films 2021 drama films Slovak drama films Slovak-language films German drama films Czech drama films Czech World War II films German World War II films Slovak World War II films {{2020s-drama-film-stub

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