On 10 April 1944, two prisoners walked out of Auschwitz. The Auschwitz Report follows Freddy and Walter, the young Slovak Jews behind that escape, and the weeks of planning that made it possible.
What is The Auschwitz Report about?
Freddy and Walter were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. By the spring of 1944 they had spent more than a year inside the camp, long enough to understand how it worked and long enough to decide that someone had to carry that understanding outside the wire. The escape they eventually attempt is not a spur-of-the-moment dash. It rests on meticulous preparation and on the quiet endurance of fellow inmates who shield them at enormous personal cost. The film follows the pair from the moment the plan begins to take shape through the tense days of hiding and the flight itself. Its title points to what lies on the far side of the fence: the men are not only trying to save themselves, they are attempting to reach a world that has not yet grasped what is happening in the camp, and to make it listen.
About the cast
The K-Time catalogue entry for The Auschwitz Report does not carry director or cast credits, so this page does not name the performers. The drama is built around its two central figures and the prisoners who surround them, and it plays as a tightly focused character piece rather than a sprawling war epic.
Context & significance
Released in 2021, the film belongs to a body of European cinema that treats the Holocaust through specific, documented episodes rather than broad overviews. Here the episode is the escape of two Slovak deportees whose account of the camp became part of the historical record, and the film keeps its lens on the practical mechanics of getting out: the timing, the hiding places, the risk to those left behind. At 94 minutes it is compact, spanning drama, historical and war genres in the catalogue. The subject matter is heavy and the setting is presented without softening, so it suits viewers looking for a sober historical drama rather than an action thriller.
Watching The Auschwitz Report on Ktime
The Auschwitz Report is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose between hearing the film in Farsi or following the original audio with on-screen text. This page is free to read; to stream the film you will need a K-Time account and to be signed in. K-Time is a Persian-focused streaming service for the Iranian diaspora, and its Farsi interface makes it simple to switch between the dubbed and subtitled options once you press play.