Triumph of the Spirit |  | Director: Robert M. Young
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle, Kelly Wolf
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 35831
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D1003338D
ISBN: 0792852257
UPC: 027616874870
EAN: 9780792852254
ASIN: B00005V9HN
Theatrical Release Date: 1989
Release Date: April 16, 2002
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OscarÂ(r) nominees* Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire, Platoon), Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver) and Robert Loggia (Jagged Edge) deliver "performances [that] will astonish you" (Jeffrey Lyons) in this "extraordinary" (The Wall Street Journal) story of life, death and conscience. It "may be one of the most powerful films you will see in a lifetime" (KABC-TV). And most incredible of all, it's true! World War II was the time. Auschwitz was the place. Survival was the prize. Boxer Salamo Arouch (Dafoe) is interned in the Nazi death campwith his family and friends. For the amusement of his captors, Salamo is forced to fight his fellowinmates brutal contests that send the loser to the gas showers. Salamo's prowess in the ring is both his salvation and his nightmare, as his "victories" condemn others to death. Still he fights on, hoping he might somehow save his father his friends perhaps even his soul. *Dafoe: Supporting Actor, Shadow of the Vampire (2000); Supporting Actor, Platoon (1986); Olmos: Actor, Stand and Deliver (1988); Loggia: Supporting Actor, Jagged Edge (1985)
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 16
 Powerfull June 3, 2009
Brian Sternberg
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Powerfull movie,if it does not bring a tear to your eye you have no heart,one of the few movies that have moved me this much,I bought the movie the week the title character passed away,I came accross his obit in the paper,I clipped it and put it with the movie.
 [Two-and-a-half stars out of four] Nice emotional story, but more fiction than truth here May 15, 2009
Ricahrd A. Salzer (Chesapeake, Virginia, USA)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
The real Salamo Arouch story in REAL life,
not the Hollyweird version is quite a bit
different. There were no boxing mathces at
Auschwitz, but there were two Olympic sized
pools [See Swedish jewish Revisionist Ditlieb
Felderer's writings, his parents were inter-
ned there for four months in 1943...]. Arouch,
from Greece was deported to Auschwitz, the pol-
ish camp and all of his family died there of
typhus, not the phoney non-existent 'gas cham-
bers' we've heard allllll ABOUT (AD NUSEUM) FOR
decades. It's sad those things happened, but
that doesn't mean we're all required to believe
jewish miracle stories just because James Olmos
and Willem Dafoe star in movies about them! Caveat
Emptor!
I even use this at school! May 9, 2009
Middy (PA USA)
This movie really gives a well done, honest, but tastefully done view of the Jewish WWII experience. Anne Frank is wonderful, but this gives a new perspective and a new face of the crimes of the time.
The Truth Will Set You Free April 30, 2009
MarieLover (California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a child growing up I had to endure the sometimes mad and raving ramblings of my father who is a dyed-in-the-wool Holocaust revisionist and an admirer of all things German. I was given a German name, a German godfather, and most of my relatives married Germanic people even though my family does not have an ounce of German blood at all. So when I was going to school I was really confused and I thought to myself " why don't I find out my own truth and not have my Father tell me things that HE believes are true, but are true to me? " So in middle school I spent countless hours in the library ( which was brimming over with a wealth of informative and educational, ah, what America once was ) and I would choose many books on the Holocaust and WWII. I picked up a book named " A Nightmare In History " and needless to say my life changed FOREVER.
If such a thing such as the Holocaust actually NEVER ocurred as my Father and the countless Hitler lovers and Neo-Nazis in the world say never ocurred, then I truly despise being born a human being and inhabiting this sick and twisted world. This was truly a soul-crushing, harrowing, nightmarish view of a world I knew about when I was a child being indoctrinated into believing it wasn't true but seeing it actually being brought to the silver screen was surreal and the most brutal, engaging, engrossing, and lividly disgusting depiction of what we as men do to our brothers and sisters.
Without going into much detail there are things in this movie that will shock ANYBODY who can call themselves a person, no matter what horror or blood and guts movie they have ever seen. The acting is solid and the affected relationship between father and son ( Willem Dafoe and Robert Loggia ) is truly heartbreaking and painful to watch. When Salomo finally was forced to say goodbye to his Father I couldn't stop crying, it had to be one of the most painful scenes I have ever seen on a movie screen. The last 10 minutes of the movie to me are the worst, bar none. I won't give anything away, all I have to say is that this movie isn't a movie at all, it is more like a going through a time machine and waking up in a nightmare world where all you want to do is escape, and anybody who believes in God above has to know that although God allows such things to happen time and time again, be it in Rwanda, Cambodia, Germany, Poland, wherever and when it happens again ( as it most likely will somewhere ) there is a silver lining to ever story: God is eternal just like the Jewish people, who have been much maligned and forced to suffer thoughout history for the faults and sins of their ancestors, and no matter how or why they have become who they are, no matter what you may think of them or any other race of people you admire or despise, we are all human, we are all brothers, we are all on this planet for a purpose, the purpose of being good, honest and decent people who were put here to live happy lives and love our neighbors and all the living creatures God put on this Earth. I am a Christian and I try to love everybody equally, and although sometimes my inherent prejudices do come out ( because all of us have them, no matter what we may think ) I try to put myself in the other person's shoes and I try to remember that every man, woman and child on this planet has a soul, a spirit that can be uplifted or taken down, exalted or shattered, but it is always there and GUESS WHAT: NO MAN IS BORN EVIL, I TRULY BELIEVE THAT. The world has a way of making men evil, but all of us have a chance to redeem ourselves and try to make the world a place that we can enjoy to live in. Think of this movie as a wake-up call for your soul: Remember your brother, CAN'T YOU SEE HIS FACE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR?
Graphic and engrossing January 28, 2009
Richard Libowitz (Philadelphia, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While not the greatest film, "Triumph of the Spirit" captures the look and feel of the concentration camps. Filmed within the actual confines of Auschwitz, the male and female leads have an authentic emaciated and dirty appearance. Robert Loggia gives an especially inspired performance as the father. The changing of Marta's name to "Allegra" seems to have no purpose and several of the scenes are either maudlin or reflect an absolute change from the facts. Several events occur in the wrong seasons, but this may be attributable to when the production was allowed to film within Auschwitz.
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