‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’: Where to watch in South Africa

Drama series The Tattooist of Auschwitz will be coming to South Africans screens this August, here’s where to watch.

WHERE TO WATCH ‘THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ’ IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a drama series that dives into one of the grimmest times and places in history. The series is based on the global best-selling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz. According to IDMB, the series is based on the powerful real-life story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners’ arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau

Viewers can catch the drama series on M-Net (DStv Channel 101) and Showmax in a six-part series, from 28 August at 21:00.

“It’s a tale told from within the cold heart of one of the darkest times in human history – but it offers hope in that two people could find love amidst the death and destruction. Prisoner Lali Sokol (The Little Mermaid’s Jonah Hauer-King) is a tattooist tasked with etching numbers into the flesh of those corralled into the death camp and he and fellow prisoner Gita (Anna Próchniak, The Innocents) fall in love as their paths cross,” according to M-Net.

“Their love story brings hope to the horror and their story and subsequent escape is based solely on a much older Lali’s (Academy Award-winner Harvey Keitel) recollection as told to the narrator (Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets), told many decades later,” according to M-Net.

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What became Heather Morris’ 2018 best-selling novel was originally written as a screenplay and based on her interviews with the real Lale Sokov after Gita’s death. Morris met with him for three years until his death in 2006 to hear his story about his time with Gita in Auschwitz, where he told her about the trauma, pain and survivor guilt which had followed him for decades.

The novel achieved the #1 spot on The New York Times Bestseller list. Since then, the novel has been translated and published in more than 47 languages, selling more than three million copies. The series features an original score by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer and an original song written and performed by Barbra Streisand.

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