The Volunteer

Synopsis

Based on Jack Fairweather's Costa Book of the Year prize-winning biography of Witold Pilecki. Pilecki was a covert operative who volunteered to be captured and taken to deadly new Nazi detention centre, Auschwitz, in order to infiltrate the camp, organise a resistance from within, gather evidence of the atrocities being committed against thousands of European Jews, and ultimately attack the Nazi forces from where they’d least expect. However, Pilecki’s incredible and heroic story would later be wiped from the annals of history by Poland’s communist government and the man himself branded a traitor and enemy of the state.
Fairweather’s account pieces together first-hand accounts from survivors, access to unpublished diaries and newly released archival documents.

Details

Year

2021

Type of film

Features

Producer

Juliette Howell, Tessa Ross

Screenwriter

Jack Fairweather (book)

Genre

• Drama

Production status

Pre-production

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Last updated 5th February 2020