A soldier's honor, incredible courage and a suicidal mission.
In September 1940, Witold Pilecki is sent to KL Auschwitz. After crossing the gates of the camp, it becomes number 4859. The uniform of a Polish officer is voluntarily changed into a camp striped uniform to fulfill his patriotic mission.
When the Nazis transform a concentration camp into a death machine, Pilecki creates a resistance movement there. In people for whom the sole goal is survival, it inspires hope and the will to fight. His reports - a dramatic cry for help from the very heart of hell on earth - get out behind the barbed wire of the camp. But despite their terrifying content, no rescue is coming.
Could the Western world have stopped the Holocaust? Was Pilecki's mission likely to be successful?
Ochotnik is a story about a Polish hero, based on previously unknown sources and testimonies of witnesses, about which the whole world should learn.
A shocking picture of the war, stripped of Soviet propaganda.
