Champion

In 1940, Polish boxing champion Teddy participated in the armed forces defending the siege of Warsaw. Warsaw was broken. He was arrested on the way to France and became the first batch of war prisoners sent to Auschwitz. The situation in the concentration camp was precarious, and the underground boxing match that the Nazi soldiers regarded as a game became an important battle for Teddy to fight for survival. However, the inspiring victories one after another alerted the Nazi superiors to the prisoners' sense of resistance, and in turn strengthened control. Seeing the conflict gradually intensifying, victory had become a cruel way to survive in the concentration camp. The first feature film by emerging Polish director Macije Balczewski brings the story of the neglected Warsaw boxing champion to the big screen after the war. The prisoner nicknamed "77" won 40 fights in three years. His story of struggle became the collective memory of the Auschwitz prisoner survivors. Polish gold medal actor Peter. Through long and intensive physical training, Glowacki brilliantly performed the most "painful" role in Polish film history. “My grandfather was a concentration camp survivor, and this story has always been in my blood.” ― Marcie Balczewski