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THE CHAMPION
Name and occupation?
Attention! Caps off!
Let's go.
You're the first to arrive to a German concentration camp.
Tomorrow you will start renovating the barracks.
The young ones will go to the joinery.
If there are Jews here,
they cannot live longer than two weeks.
Priests - one month,
the rest - three months.
For such enemies of the Third Reich like you,
there will be no favours
and no mercy.
There is no other way out than through the crematorium chimney.
Forget about your wives, your children
and your families.
You are no longer human beings for us.
Give it to me.
Only half of them during the night.
We'll steal civilian clothes from the depot.
Then we'll dismantle the fence.
I ran away three times from the Bolsheviks.
Germans shouldn't be harder.
First, we'll come...
Back to work!
Stand up!
To work!
Out, dogs!
I know you.
You were in Legia club.
They called you "Teddy", like an American boxer.
I've seen your fight for the Polish championship.
What else have you seen?
You should have won for points.
For points? I didn't lose because of points...
You were the best in Warsaw.
Look around.
There's no Legia and no Warsaw here.
No one is best here.
I'd guard my food better if I were you.
The roof over attic will be a sewing workshop.
Find two able girls.
Rudi, my love.
My dear, to live and to die here.
Put it here.
Don't get anything dirty, you Pole.
Number 77 reporting.
Albrecht Dürer.
"Angel with a key to the abyss."
You still don't understand? It was for you.
Eat.
Attention!
You thought I will allow for a theft?
- Take them. - Yes, sir!
- Out, dogs! - Faster!
Clean up!
Next!
- Faster! - Forward!
Come on!
Apple on your head.
Apple.
"He is not afraid of the mountains among which he has grown..."
"...should last a year at our cabin door."
William Tell by Schiller.
Where did you learn this?
We read it at home.
Twenty five lashes each.
They need to feel the power of German poetry.
Then to penal company.
Sir,
I've already filled out five death reports, not four.
You!
Yes, you.
Your cap.
Bring it.
Help him.
You got their numbers?
Yes.
Five bodies 5 marks each.
That is 25 marks altogether.
Write it down.
Escape attempt.
That will be 55 marks.
Yes, sir!
You count.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Ten.
Eleven.
Twelve.
Thirteen.
Fourteen.
Fifteen.
Sixteen.
Seventeen.
Undress.
Put the clothes beside you.
You will get them back after a bath.
Then you will get a warm meal.
Move!
Where are we going to?
Drown out the noise.
Get to work!
Hold the barrow.
Stand up!
Punch him the hardest you can.
If he goes down, the sausage is yours.
Now your turn.
Bravo!
Not so fast.
This is the first round.
Who's next?
This one.
Punch.
What the hell?
Wait!
I will try.
You got fat.
- Thief! - Wait a moment.
If he loses, he's yours.
If he wins, he'll get the bread.
- Alright? - OK.
Until first blood.
Here.
The ring is free!
Fucking work!
Fight him now.
- No! - Give him bread.
At last, someone who can fight.
Where did you fight?
In Warsaw.
Hamburg. Championship in 1938.
And then he ducked, and punched.
It was terrible. I thought it's over for him.
Eat.
I need more food.
And medicine.
You need to earn them.
Number 77...
...reporting.
Have you seen that?
Just like I said.
He's like a fog.
We'll give him more food and he'll fight the best boxers.
The guys will love it.
Nickname: Teddy.
Also known as a gentleman boxer.
The king of dodging from Warsaw.
Almost 100 fights in bantam and feather weight.
Fought twice for the Polish championship.
First time
the fight didn't take place.
Second time he lost.
You don't look much like a champ.
He looks more like a small chicken that has been plucked from feathers.
He won't last a few minutes.
We can make bets
how long will he last.
Gentlemen,
this is no secret,
that last Sunday six our guys got drunk
and made a brawl in a nearby village.
Maybe we should organize some entertainment
instead of waiting for them to get completely drunk again.
We can try.
Find someone who won't prolong his agony.
Gentlemen, capo Max or prisoner 77?
Have you placed your bets?
Yes, go ahead...
Gentlemen!
First round! The ring is free!
- Ready? - Yes.
Ready?
Box!
Stop! To your corners.
You'll work here from now on.
It's a light job.
And you'll get food.
What about medicine?
Go to the SS ambulatory.
I'll tell them you're expected.
They'll put you on your legs again.
Don't move.
If I don't fix it, there's gonna be problems.
This is Helcia.
Say hi to Mr. Boxer.
Her mother and father are dead.
She helps me keep order here.
You really beat that guard up.
The whole camp heard about it.
Finished.
Thank you.
I need medicine.
For pneumonia.
This should help.
You'll help too.
Give this to Mordechai. From hospital.
He'll need it more.
Hey, boxer!
What if he was catholic?
Our Rabbi said:
if you can, go pray on meadows and fields.
If you can, go pray on meadows and fields.
We are all like blades of grass, born of the same soil.
They don't look like they can go somewhere.
Because they can't.
Congratulations.
We've only got aspirin
and some bandages.
You could help out.
I'm supposed to carry medicine for you?
I can't risk it now.
The boy will last a week or two on the construction site.
We can transfer him to sister Maria, to the SS ambulatory.
She will take care of him.
Dad?
Dad!
Yes?
Can I show you something?
Why did the Uhlan of Rhine lose with the black American?
- It's easy, his coach was a Jew. - Gerhard...
He looks like he doesn't want to win.
That was a conspiracy.
You have to understand that.
Boxing is a peasant sport.
Next week you've got horse riding lessons.
I've read that boxing is like chess,
only one hundred times faster.
Rudi, go to bed.
What are you doing here?
You don't look sick.
Maybe you'd like to move to the netherworld?
I know people like you.
You cling to life with all your might.
They can think you want to fight.
That you want to win the war with your fists.
But you won't fool me.
You want to live.
Live...
Take it.
You didn't have to.
I wanted to make sure you don't lose in the first round.
What about other fights?
How to win them?
First, find out the opponent's weak spots.
Then fight out a place in the middle of the ring.
But most of all, conserve your strength for a difficult moment.
What if he fights unfair?
Long time ago,
in ancient Olympia,
on a third full moon after the summer solstice,
Zeus established the olympic games.
All participants had to swear a vow under his statue
that they will sleep on bare ground,
wear only animal skins
and bathe in cold waters of a stream.
But the most important thing
was to fight according to the rule of equal rights,
respect the opponent
and respect oneself.
Only then you can truly win.
Here you are.
Thoroughbred English.
We've got a beautiful sentence over the camp's entrance.
You will also make one for the entrance to the stables.
On the back of a horse lies the paradise of Earth.
I see
that you put on some weight.
You're a true pretender now.
Eat, eat.
After all, you are our only entertainment.
When we get bored with you,
you will show us how a true Pole loses.
You are the best in that.
Right?
In order. Thanks.
Move.
I'm afraid I don't have good news.
Typhoid.
It's impossible.
He never...
He seldom went outside.
Please forgive me, but...
Did he contact the prisoners or touch things from the camp?
No, doctor.
Can we do something?
Anything?
Well...
We need to start the treatment and observation.
What are you doing here?
My dad used to say that before birth we are all angels
and then we fall down here, to Earth.
Only the best of us are going back up.
Where is your dad?
Can you see that star?
I think your father looks down and is proud of you.
I think I should stop fighting.
This here is not a sport.
These are not your fights anymore.
You fight for us.
Instead of us.
Undress!
Put the clothes beside you.
You will get them back after a shower.
And then a warm meal.
Move!
Officer!
She tried to smuggle food for the Poles.
Stop!
Undress!
Or I will shoot you like a dog!
Undress.
Faster!
We won't wait all night!
They killed her.
They killed Helcia.
They killed her...
They didn't kill her.
She will never die if you remember her.
She will live here and here.
Now run to work before they realize you're gone.
- Sister? - Yes?
Shouldn't I get a tetanus shot?
Yes, of course.
I see you've got a young assistant.
He's a lover of German poetry.
Come here.
Hello, little nurse helper.
Give the syringe to the boy.
You must stick it at the right angle.
Here.
Not in the vein.
You could have killed me.
What's your name?
Janek.
You'd like to kill me, right?
Do you believe in God?
I killed a lot of people.
Would God allow for that if he existed?
I could have died today.
Yet here I am.
Maybe that's what it's all about?
Maybe that's his plan?
He takes away the most precious things and lets you live on.
You don't have to.
What?
You don't have to do this.
He used to be a German champ.
He's called Hammerschlag.
One punch and that's it.
This is neither mine nor yours weight.
Come, once again around the block.
Did I understand that well?
You want to fight with a German champ?
With our Hammerschlag?
German shouldn't have to get his hand dirty.
I have to win.
And I will.
Only you know that.
In exchange you want me to release the boy.
What if I say no?
No more fights.
Why would you even think that it is possible?
You can do anything, sir.
Let it be so.
Take him away.
You were right.
Our boys like his fights.
But his wins embolden the prisoners,
strengthen the resistance.
Maybe we should hang him before today's roll call?
There's no need to create a martyr.
Find a boxer who can replace him,
beginning with the visit of our guests from Neuengamme.
Prisoner 77 will get what he wants.
The fight will happen today.
On hard ground.
Every prisoner should see this.
Are you sure?
He didn't lose a single fight.
Did you know,
that way back the flakes in these bowls
were made of crushed human bones?
Make sure that a pure-bred stallion wins this fight.
Attention! Attention!
Gentlemen!
A real sensation awaits you tonight!
A fight for multiweight championship of Auschwitz camp.
The unbroken 77
will fight with the invincible Hammerschlag.
Have you seen Janek?
No.
This is going to be a good fight.
Let the better one win.
Are you ready?
Ready?
Box!
Back off! To your corners!
Pick the ring up. Everything OK?
Box!
It's going good.
Round two!
What's wrong?
Line up! Hurry!
Faster! Form a line!
- Faster! - Leave him, he's got enough.
Line up!
I want to fight.
I can fight. Let me.
Not with him.
I will not touch him.
So he will first shoot him, then you.
No, not with him.
Shoot him.
Punch me.
Janek.
Punch me.
Punch me!
Don't act like a brat and punch me!
Shoot!
Janek!
You will experience great sights here.
Here.
And the winner is...
CHAMPION
Shit.
Go...
...to work!
Dear officers and guests from Neuengamme.
Especially for you, the invincible...
Champion Hammerschlag
versus Prisoner 934.
Round one, the ring is free!
Box!
I give him two minutes, guys.
I know him! That's Teddy!
I was a referee in his fight before the war.
This is going to be interesting.
Gentlemen, let's make bets.
All for Teddy.
Come on, Teddy!
Box!
Amazing!
Here's...
The multiweight world champion...
of the Auschwitz concentration camp...
Number 77!
Transfer him to us.
Please.
Lately I've got the same dream every night.
I'm in an empty, dark house.
On its walls hang hundreds of portraits
with faces full of fear and hate.
When I want to take them off,
it turns out those are not portraits, but windows.
Tell me, boxer.
How it feels to be a champion?
I'm not a champion.
Not yet.
Our guest,
commander of the Neuengamme camp,
asked us to transfer you.
Now you will fight for him.
You are leaving Auschwitz.
This is from someone,
who understood your sport far better than me.
Some day
all of this will end.
Where will you go?
I'll find a new home.
And when you find it...
Do you know who will you be?
I don't know who will I be.
But I know for sure...
I always knew.
Who I want to be.
Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski after being transferred from
KL Auschwitz continued boxing fights in concentration camps.
After being liberated by the Allied forces, he returned to Poland
and made a dream come true...