In “The Survivor,” filmmaker Barry Levinson reaches back 80 years to tell the grueling story of a boxer who put the lives of fellow concentration camp prisoners at risk to save his own.
The moral and psychological repercussions for Harry Haft are why Levinson, the Oscar-winning director of “Rain Man,” was drawn to the project based on a book about Haft's Holocaust ordeal written by his son, Alan Scott Haft.
