Triumph of the Spirit

A stevedore in Thessaloniki, Greece, Arouch's passion is boxing. Captured along with his family and fiance Allegra in 1943 and interred in Auschwitz, Arouch is used by his SS captors as entertainment, forced to box against fellow prisoners. He knows that if he refuses, his family will be punished; if he wins, he will be given extra rations which he can share with them; if he loses, he will be sent to the gas chamber...