Tremble is the second feature release by Israeli-American writer-director Lior Geller, whose 2008 short, Roads, holds the Guinness World Record for most awards for short student film.

“We are proud to release Lior’s feature about the incredible true story of this heroic escape that alerted the world to the Holocaust,” says Vertical’s vice president of acquisitions Tony Piantedosi.

The film is slated to open March 14.

 

The announcement comes on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, amid historic levels of heightened antisemitism, incidents of which have doubled since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

Tremble stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Amazon’s Wilderness) and Jeremy Neumark Jones (Netflix’s Kleo) as Solomon Weiner and Michael Podchlebnik, two Jewish prisoners who escaped the Chelmno extermination camp and provided first eyewitness accounts of the Nazis’ horrors.

Chelmno was the first of 6 extermination camps established by the Nazis for mass murder during World War II. It is about 300 miles from Majdanek, the extermination camp featured in Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar-nominated film A Real Pain, and 300 miles from Auschwitz-Birkenau, where one million Jews were murdered in gas chambers.

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Geller spent over a decade researching, collaborating with historians, Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center and families of Weiner and Podchlebnik.

It also stars Charlie MacGechan (Pennyworth), Michael Epp (The Brutalist), David Kross (The Reader), Michael Fox (Downton Abbey) and Anton Lesser (Andor, Game of Thrones).