The Auschwitz Report (2021) on Netflix
Freddy and Walter, two young Slovak Jews, are deported to Auschwitz in 1942. They plan to get out carrying evidence of the camp, so the world can be told.
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Plot summary
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter - two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates, they had left behind, courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence could save lives. Emaciated and hurt, they make their way through the mountains back to Slovakia. With the help of chance encounters, they finally manage to cross the border and meet the resistance and The Red Cross. They compile a detailed report about the systematic genocide at the camp. However, with Nazi propaganda and international liaisons still in place, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Auschwitz Report (2021)
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- The film is based on the true story of Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler, two Auschwitz prisoners who escaped with details of the camp's operation, including a label from a canister of the pesticide Zyklon-B; their recollections became the Vrba–Wetzler report.
- Inventive techniques were used while filming: an upside-down camera shot some of the action to show the audience how it was being viewed by the protagonists, and bleached colours reflect the soggy greyness of the mud.
