The Boxer and Death

{{short description|1962 film}} {{Infobox film | name = | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Peter Solan | producer = | writer = Jozef Hen<br>Tibor Vichta<br>Peter Solan<ref name="Kehr">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DE4DD1731F931A25753C1A96E948260|title=Movie Review - The Boxer and Death - Review/Film; Holocaust With a Twist|last=Kehr|first=Dave|date=13 August 2004|work=The New York Times|page=23|accessdate=24 April 2014}}</ref> | narrator = | starring = Stefan Kvietik<br>Manfred Krug<br>Gerhard Rachold | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Studio Hranych Filmov, Bratislava<ref name="Kehr" /> | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1962}} | runtime = 107 minutes<ref name="Bleiler1999">{{cite book|last=Bleiler|first=David|title=TLA Film and Video Guide: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide 2000-2001|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312243302|url-access=registration|date=30 October 1999|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=9780312243302|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312243302/page/72 72]}}</ref> | country = Czechoslovakia | language = | budget = | gross = }}

'''''The Boxer and Death''''' ({{langx|sk|Boxer a smrť}}) is a 1962 Slovak film directed by Peter Solan. The film is based on the life of Polish boxer Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski,<ref name="Cyra">{{cite web|url=http://pl.auschwitz.org/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=716&Itemid=12|title=Bokser i śmierć|last=Cyra|first=Adam|date=15 October 2007|publisher=Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum|accessdate=21 January 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122000020/http://pl.auschwitz.org/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=716&Itemid=12|archivedate=22 January 2015}}</ref> but in the film the boxer's name is Ján Komínek.<ref name="Kehr" /> It stars Štefan Kvietik and Manfred Krug, and was based on a Polish novel by Jozef Hen.<ref name="Insdorf2003">{{cite book|last=Insdorf|first=Annette|title=Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8B5a-1Ss8LwC&pg=PA55|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521016308|pages=55–}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boxer and Death}} Category:1962 films Category:Czechoslovak World War II films Category:Slovak-language films Category:Holocaust films Category:Slovak World War II films