The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by...
An unassuming student challenges the old school ideas of Theodore Zwick, an overqualified high school philosophy teacher who's hit a dead end. With a newfound passion for teaching, Zwick sets out to accomplish all he left behind.
