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Searching for Victor 'Young' Perez : the boxer of Auschwitz

Searching for Victor 'Young' Perez : the boxer of Auschwitz

DVD 2018

In 1931, Victor 'Young' Perez rose to great fame as the youngest world champion in boxing history. Twelve years later he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was forced to box for the amusement of the camp guards. When Actor Tomer Sisley was inspired to make a movie about Perez after hearing his story. This follows Sisley's quest to learn the secret of his tragic fate.

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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Boxers (Sports) Tunisia Biography
Holocaust victims
Internment camp inmates
Jewish athletes
Jews Tunisia
Nazi concentration camp inmates
Perez, Victor, 1911-1945
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Description:
1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical stereo
videodisc
DVD
video file DVD video
polychrome
Notes:
Title from web page
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016
Composer, Karen Ann Zeidel ; cinematographers, Arnaud Mansir, Laurent Preece ; editor Bob Rayers
Tomer Sisley
DVD
English audio ; French subtitles
Control Number:
2538726
UPC:
760137115892
Other Authors:
EPF Media, publisher
Hello Productions (Firm), production company
Monteil, Frédéric, film director, screenwriter
Nahum, Sophie, film director, film producer, screenwriter
Preece, Laurent, film producer, director of photography
Sisley, Tomer, on-screen presenter
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