Triumph of the Spirit - BLU-RAY

Triumph of the Spirit is a powerful boxing drama that takes place during WWII at the Auschwitz internment camp. Salamo Arouch, interned at the death camp with his family and friends, is forced to fight his fellow inmates to amuse the guards the loser is sent to the gas chamber. Salamo's prowess in the ring is both his salvation and his nightmare, as his hollow victories condemn others to death. Still he fights on, hoping he might somehow save his father, his friends perhaps even his soul.

Triumph of the Spirit is a powerful boxing drama that takes place during WWII at the Auschwitz internment camp. Salamo Arouch, interned at the death camp with his family and friends, is forced to fight his fellow inmates to amuse the guards the loser is sent to the gas chamber. Salamo's prowess in the ring is both his salvation and his nightmare, as his hollow victories condemn others to death. Still he fights on, hoping he might somehow save his father, his friends perhaps even his soul.

In 1938, Paris has become a haven for refugees trying to escape growing Nazi power. Charles Boyer (GASLIGHT, THE BUCCANEER) plays Dr. Ravic, a German surgeon practicing medicine illegally in France. Always one step away from being discovered and sent back to Germany, he seeks revenge on his enemy, a Nazi officer (Charles Laughton), who tortured him. One night, he saves Joan Madou, played by Ingrid Bergman (CASABLANCA, NOTORIOUS), a woman cast adrift after the death of her lover. He finds her a job singing at a nightclub, and eventually they begin an affair, only to be separated when Ravic is found out and deported. Lewis Milestone's (ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT) adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel is an atmospheric tale of romance and revenge set among the rising tensions of a continent at the brink of war.