Hell or High Water’sBen Fosterstars in the powerfully bleak first trailer for the upcoming HBO biographical drama,The Survivor. Released by theHBO official YouTube channel,The Survivortells the brutal true story of Harry Haft, a boxer who looks to carry on after fighting to survive in the Holocaust.
Starring Ben Foster as Harry Haft,The Survivorbegins when the Nazis invade Poland and Harry Haft is sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp. He is a powerfully built man, so a charming but sadistic Nazi officer offers him an impossible deal: fight fellow prisoners in the boxing ring for the amusement of his captors, or die. The winner of the bout survives to fight again. The loser is shot or sent to the gas chamber. How far will Harry’s will to live take him? What will he do to escape the death all around him?
The Survivoris directed byRain ManandGood Morning, VietnamfilmmakerBarry Levinson, from a screenplay by Justine Juel Gillmer, and stars Billy Magnussen, Danny DeVito, Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard, Saro Emirze, Dar Zuzovsky and John Leguizamo alongside Ben Foster.
The trailer offers just a glimpse of the hardships and savagery that Harry Haft faced during his experience surviving the Holocaust, withThe Survivorseemingly detailing his life before, during, and after these truly awful events as the boxer fights to come to terms with what he has lived through.
The Survivorhad its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2021, and is due to be released onHBO Maxon April 27.
Ben Foster Has Proven Time & Again His Ability to Portray Tortured, Powerful Characters
Initially known for supporting roles inThe Punisher, X-Men: The Last Stand,and30 Days of Night,Ben Foster has slowly proven his affinity for playing powerful, tortured characters. His roles in the likes of the neo-Western crime flickHell or High Wateralongside Chris Pine and the quietly hauntingLeave No Tracewonderfully demonstrate how much Foster can say without actually saying a word. Based on the trailer,The Survivorcould be Foster’s most powerful performance yet.
Ben Foster will next star opposite Will Smith in the upcoming action thrillerEmancipation. Directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by William N. Collage,Emancipationfollows a slave named Peter, who escapes from a Louisiana plantation. Outwitting cold-blooded hunters led by Fassel, he makes his way North, where he joins the Union Army.
Foster will also soon reunite withHell or High Waterco-star Chris Pine for the thrillerViolence of Actionfrom STXFilms. Helmed by Swedish director Tarik Saleh, Violence of Action stars Pine as James Harper who, after being involuntarily discharged from the Green Berets, joins a paramilitary organization in order to support his family in the only way he knows how. Harper travels to Berlin with his elite team on a black ops mission to investigate a mysterious threat. Barely into his first assignment, he finds himself alone and hunted across Europe, where he must fight to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
