''The Auschwitz Report'' () is a 2021

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directed by

Peter Bebjak Peter Bebjak (born 1970 in Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovakia, Slovak actor, film director, director, film producer, producer and screenwriter, writer. In 2001, and along with Rastislav Šesták, he established DNA Pr ...

who co-wrote the script with Jozef Pastéka & Peter Bebjack. It was selected as the Slovak entry for the Best International Feature Film at the

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, but it was not nominated. It is a co-production between

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, the

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and

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Plot

The film is based on the true story of

Rudolf Vrba Rudolf 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-occupied Pol ...

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, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) d ...

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

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, 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

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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 ...

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

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