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VICTOR "YOUNG" PEREZ

By Jacques OUANICHE

PICTURE TREE INTERNATIONAL GMBH - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2013

SURVIVAL IS THE BATTLE. LIVING IS THE VICTORY.

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Drama, Historical, Biography
- Countries
- FRANCE, ISRAEL, BULGARIA
- Languages
- FRENCH, GERMAN
- Duration
- 106 mn
- Director(s)
- Jacques OUANICHE
- Writer(s)
- Jacques OUANICHE, Yoni DARMON
- Cast
- Brahim ASLOUM, Steve SUISSA, Patrice BOUCHITEY, Isabella ORSINI, Bruce PAYNE, Davy SARDOU
- Producer(s)
- Nelly KAFSKY (Mazel Productions), Jacques OUANICHE (NOÉ PRODUCTIONS int ), Daniel GOUDINEAU (France 3 CINEMA ), Marek ROZENBAUM (Transfax Film Productions LTD), Gianfranco PIERANTONI (Pierantoni and Partners), James DALY (Greenhouse Media Investment)
- Synopsis
- Victor „Young“ Perez tells the true and incredibly moving story of the Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Champion in 1931 and 1932. Victor Perez (Brahim Asloum) started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin „Kid“ Perez (Steve Suissa). He rose to great fame thanks to the help and guidance of Leon Bellier (Patrice Bouchitey) and had a relationship with French-Italian actress Mireille Balin (Isabella Orsini). The 5‘1“, 110-pound Perez won the International Boxing Union’s crown with a 2nd-round knockout of American champion Frankie Genaro, becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history.
  Perez was arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and arrived at Auschwitz on October 10, 1943, as part of „Transport 60“. He was held in Auschwitz III/Monowitz. Whilst there he was forced to participate in boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazis. By 1945 Victor had survived 140 bouts in 15 months and won 139. Perez was one of the prisoners on the „Death March" that left the camp on January 18, 1945.