Sobibor
KeepMoving Records KMRCD039

KeepMoving Records presents the soundtrack for the russian movie Sobibor directed by and starring Konstantin Khabenskiy by composer Kuzma Bodrov.

KeepMoving Records presents the soundtrack for the russian movie Sobibor directed by and starring Konstantin Khabenskiy by composer Kuzma Bodrov.

Directed by and starring Konstantin Khabenskiy as war hero Aleksandr Pechersky, Sobibor is based on true events in World War II. On 14 October 1943, the death camp in the Polish village of Sobibor saw the most successful underground resistance uprising of World War II.
About half of the estimated 600 inmates at the camp managed to escape and though a majority of them were eventually re-captured and executed, about 50-70 people managed to flee for good.
The cast for Sobibor is rounded out by actresses Mariya Kozhevnikova and Michalina Olszanska, while Felice Jankell plays the role of love interest Luca, while Christopher Lambert plays against type as Pechersky’s nemesis, SS-Oberscharführer Karl Frenzel.

Sobibor marks the feature film debut of Kyrgyz-born composer Kuzma Bodrov. Born in the town of Osh in 1980, Bodrov is a member of the Laboratory of the Scenic Director Dmitri Krimov, with whom he collaborates permanently and has premiered his first opera, “H.M. Mixed Media” in October 2011.
In the same year, he was invited as a composer to the World Youth Day – Madrid 2011, chaired by SS Benedict XVI, becoming Resident Composer of the Symphony Orchestra and JMJ Choir since then.
As the associate professor of Professor Alexander Tchaikovsky at the Moscow State Conservatory, he teaches polyphony, harmony, musical forms, orchestration, and reduction.

Bodrov’s music constantly balances between finding the beauty of humanity and showcasing the atrocities of the death camps. There are three cues (“The Path to the Unknown”, “Execution”, “The Train of the Dead”) which deviate from the classical, thematically-rich symphonic score – these are written for three sequences which unabashedly depict war atrocities.
Yet for all these atrocities, there are cues that shine a light for humanity. For instance, the heart-wrenching violin solo in “The Race for a Life” underscores a brutal chariot race, while “The Gas Chamber” and “Runaway to Eternity” utilize a choir. From the “Prelude” to the end credits piece, it’s one of the few contemporary scores where the cues build upon each other with such incredible musical architecture that the music deserves to (and should) be heard in its entirety.

“Sobibor” Original Motion Picture Score is a limited edition of 100 copies
Label: KMRCD 039

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Based on the true story, SOBIBOR tells the story of the heroism of Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. Sobibor was one of four concentration camps in Poland. Prisoners were not separated into two groups like many of the other camps: fit or unfit for work. Those who arrived in Sobibor were doomed for death. With the greatest odds against him, our hero managed to do the impossible — in only three weeks he organized a daring revolt, which aided the mass escape of Sobibor’s condemned prisoners. Some of the escapees were caught and shot, but the rest followed Pechersky and managed to escape. They joined the resistance to fight the Nazis. Pechersky’s victory was such an embarrassment, the camp was dismantled at Himmler’s order & Alexander considered one of the Great Russian heroes of WW2.

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