The one who defends himself, defends himself (from the etymology of the word "Sobibor") Two scenes are particularly impressive.
First. Dozens of naked, mostly young women, shyly hiding, along a shabby corridor slowly head to the gas chamber, waiting to be led to take a shower. Standing and waiting for the water to come. For only a few seconds, the camera focuses on dead bodies.
What is it? A life that did not give new life, and therefore so painful eyes. A life that wanted to survive, closing its eyes to a terrible novelty and calling the Germans boring, preferring to live in the old way, as they lived in their people for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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One must endure - endure and believe' — all repeats the meek Luke unreasonable Alexander, a proud Russian Jew, an officer of the Red Army, once tried unsuccessfully to escape from another camp. Patience as a symbol of faith, for ' Germans keep their word' for ' to survive to take revenge' Alexander Pechersky can not do this, and his people threaten him, and says to humble his pride, and calls to endure. It will be easier for the Germans to understand.
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Who can forbid those who, like us, have received the Holy Spirit to be baptized with water?' (Acts 10:47) The words of the Apostle Peter addressed to Jews who do not want to receive former Gentiles, open a film in which those who know Yiddish deny a different Jew full communion with them. Denied on the verge of death, on the days when the ashes of their relatives fly in their faces! But someone humbles himself and tells Pechersky that they need Moses. It is only after such humility that patience and faith bear fruit. In a tired Alexander, the commander wakes up. Former teachers and tailors suddenly come to life, learning a new, military creed. '
What is it in your heart that they listened to you?' – ask Alexander. '
Comrade Stalin...' – an answer from a colleague. When there is no painful attachment to peoples and nations in the heart, and your commander is just a commander, not a leader, knocking out his tribe’s living space, whether by force, servility, or patience.
Second. A night orgy with booze and mocking campers harnessed in some wagons. To the sound of violins of the same camp. Pechersky voluntarily becomes the horse of the camp commander.
What is it? Calling himself an ancient Greek, he reproduced ancient Rome on a national scale, and patricians, slaves and chariots appeared. The free man enters the slave’s skin to know the enemy. In order to understand that the enemy is already exhausted by his evil and will soon repeat more and more, looking at former slaves: '
What is going on? '
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