The Champion

In 1940, Warsaw boxing champion Tadeusz Teddy Pietrzykowski arrives with the first prisoner transport at the newly created Auschwitz concentration camp. During his internment, camp officers force him to fight for their entertainment and for his life. With every victory against guards or other prisoners, he earns food and privileges, enough to survive. As he continues to win, he becomes a symbol of hope, strength, resilience, and a growing resistance against Nazi oppression and terror.