Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

"Experience the events that followed the Sobibor death camp prisoner's decision to escape. Readers will discover a powerful story of human courage and mankind's fierce will to live."--Publisher's website.

With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Němec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arnošt Lustig, closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, a hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual...

"Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the event known as the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.

1938: and as the Munich Crisis unfolds on the few flickering television screens then available to the richest houses in London, four Cambridge undergraduates fired with righteous indignation at the evil growing inside Nazi Germany decide to engineer the escape of a prisoner from Dachau concentration camp. What begins almost as a Rag Week stunt and is undertaken as a foolhardy dare, becomes a desperate and deadly adventure with a grim foretaste of...