‘The Survivor’: Watch The First Clip Of Ben Foster & Vicky Krieps In Barry Levinson Drama Based On Remarkable True Story — TIFF
[previously known as], starring Ben Foster, Vicky Krieps, Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Danny DeVito, Dar Zuzovsky and Saro Emirze.
Unspooling at the Toronto Film Festival, the BRON and New Mandate Films production tells the remarkable and harrowing true story of Holocaust survivor Harry Haft.Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano, the film tells the story of a boxer who survived Auschwitz by being forced to fight fellow prisoners in the concentration camps in ghoulish gladiatorial battles. If he won, he got fed and allowed to live long enough for the next bout, while the 76 opponents he beat were led to their deaths in the camps.
Foster lost 60 pounds for the boxing scenes in the concentration camps, and then gained it back to show Haft’s later life. The subject matter confronts issues like PTSD, the horror of the Holocaust and the human resolve to survive. Score comes from Hans Zimmer. Producers are Matti Leshem, Aaron L. Gilbert, Barry Levinson, Jason Sosnoff and Scott Pardo. Endeavor Content and BRON Releasing handle sales.
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