HBO Films has premiered the trailer for “Paterno” and “Wizard of Lies” director Barry Levinson’s new fact-based historical drama film “The Survivor”.
Justine Juel Gillmer wrote the Black List script based on Alan Scott Haft’s novel about Harry Haft (Ben Foster), a boxer who survived Auschwitz by being forced to fight fellow prisoners in the concentration camps.
If he won, he got fed and allowed to live long enough for the next bout, while the seventy-six opponents he beat were led to their deaths.
Haunted by the memories and guilt over the price of survival, Haft attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to rediscover a reason to live and to again find the woman he fell in love with before the war.
Vicky Krieps, Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Danny DeVito, Dar Zuzovsky, and Saro Emirze also star and the film debuts April 27th on HBO.
