Film’s “Sobibor” screening in Hanoi

A new Russian feature film "Sobibor" was screened in the capital of Vietnam, organized by the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Hanoi. This film became the directorial debut of the famous Russian actor Konstantin Khabensky, who also performed the lead role in the film.

The film tells about the only successful uprising in the history of the Second World War in the Nazi death camp "Sobibor", located in East Poland, and a mass escape from it. The film is based on real events described in the essay of the organizer and leader of the uprising of the Soviet POW, Lieutenant A. Pechersky, in the poem "Lyuka" of the Russian poet and public figure M. Geilikman, as well as in the documentary novel by V. Tomin and A. Sinelnikov "Return is Undesirable" .

In the foyer of the cinema hall an exhibition of documents and photographs “Sobibor. Victors of Death” was launched, telling about the preparation and implementation of the uprising and escape from the fascist death camp, the perseverance of the human spirit, the heroism and tragedy of Sobibor prisoners. The materials were received from the Central Office of Rossotrudnichestvo.

The electronic collection "Memory of the Great Victory" is presented on the Presidential Library portal. It includes official documents, photo and newsreels, wartime newspapers, books, agitation and propaganda publications, collections of articles, biographies, testimonies from participants in combat engagements and home front workers, their personal documents, images of combat and labor awards, monuments and memorials complexes, thoughts about the war of grandsons and great-grandchildren of veterans. 

According to the portal http://rs.gov.ru.