Triumph of the Spirit

Name: Triumph of the Spirit
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1989-12-08T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 6.5

About Triumph of the Spirit

During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.

Triumph of the Spirit is a 1989 history war film directed by Robert M. Young. Its themes are boxing, boxer, concentration camp, and jew persecution.

Willem Dafoe stars as Salamo Arouch, Edward James Olmos as Gypsy, Robert Loggia as Father Arouch, and Wendy Gazelle as Allegra. Released in December 1989, it runs 120 minutes.

The screenplay is by Andrzej Krakowski and Laurence Heath. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.

Schindler's List, The Zone of Interest, and Au Revoir les Enfants make useful companions to Triumph of the Spirit, all filed under auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp and biography. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 63 votes and it carries a R rating.