Auschwitz: Countdown to Liberation (2025)
The last weeks in the Nazi concentration camp revealed through the touching stories of survivors such as Eva Kor and Samuel Modiano. Between suffering and resistance, the documentary explores human courage in inhumane conditions, revealing the hope that flourished even in the darkest moments. A powerful tribute to memory and freedom, essential for not forgetting.
Director:
Max Serio
Writer:
Paulo Nigro
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Pyotr Cywinski as Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum |
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Andrzej Kacorzyk as Deputy director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum |
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Jochen Boehler as Director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust studies |
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Guy Walters as Historian and World War II expert |
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Lidia Maksymowicz as Auschwitz survivor |
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Stefania Wernik as Auschwitz survivor |
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Wladdyslaw Szmyt as Auschwitz survivor |
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Marian Turski as Holocaust survivor |
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Oleg Mandic as Holocaust survivor |
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Eva Kor as Holocaust survivor |
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Thomas Simon as Holocaust survivor |
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Gene Klein as Holocaust survivor |
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Rene Slotkin as Holocaust survivor |
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Irene Hizme as Holocaust survivor |
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Zoli-Zvi Schwarz as Holocaust survivor |
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Lusia Haberfeld as Holocaust survivor |
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Dario Gabbai as Holocaust survivor |
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Samuel Modiano as Holocaust survivor |
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Henia Bryer as Holocaust survivor |
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Miriam Ziegler as Holocaust survivor |
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Sally Yassy as Holocaust survivor |
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Lydia Tischler as Holocaust survivor |
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Alice Lok Cahana as Holocaust survivor |
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Paula Stern as Holocaust survivor |
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Josef Sackar as Holocaust survivor, Sonderkommando |
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Jakob Silderberg as Holocaust survivor, Sonderkommando |
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Schlomo Dragon as Holocaust survivor, Sonderkommando |
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Alexander Vorondsov as Red Army officer/soldier |
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Ivan Martynushkin as Red Army officer/soldier |
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Vasily Gromadsky as Red Army officer/soldier |
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David Dushman as Red Army officer/soldier |
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Moisey Malkis as Red Army officer/soldier |
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Isaak Monastyrsky as Red Army officer/soldier |
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Otari Amaglobely as Red Army officer/soldier |
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Mykola Karpenko as Red Army officer/soldier |
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Karl-Heinz Liesenberg as SS-Unterscharfuehrer |
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Oskar Groening as SS-Unterscharfuehrer |
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Heberhard Heber as SS-Unterscharfuehrer |
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Hans Friedrich as Waffen SS, 1st Infantry Brigade |
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Janina Rochowiak as Eyewitness/Resident of Oswiecim area |
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Jozef Palupnik as Eyewitness/Resident of Oswiecim area |
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Marian Domasik as Eyewitness/Resident of Oswiecim area |
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Massimo De Ambrosis as Narrator (Italian) |
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Peter Hosking as The Prosecutor |
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Karel Riebel as Nazi soldier with a dog/Mengele's assistant |
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Jan Sperka as Josef Mengele |
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Tomas Hlavsa as Richard Baer |
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Martin Trobl as Rudolf Hoess |
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Kristýna Kučerová as Eva Kor (child) |
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Karolina Kucerova as Miriam Kor (child) |
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Richard Vanek as Mengele's patient |
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Joraslav Anosov as Oleg Mandic (child) |
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Jakub Stupka as SS soldier |
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Aegir Rexxar Vlci Stesti as Dog |
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Anita Serio as Auschwitz nurse |
| Directing | Max Serio | Director |
| Writing | Paulo Nigro | Screenplay |
| Production | Max Serio | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ladislav Svetska | Executive Producer |
| Production | Marek Zając | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Victor Tomsa | Editor |
| Production | Radek Houska | Line Producer |
| Production | Alex Asikainen | Production Manager |
