German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
A lost masterpiece of British documentary cinema from 1945
2017 | 75m | English
Popularity: 0.8 (history)
| Director: | Sidney Bernstein |
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| Writer: | Colin Wills, Richard Crossman |
| Staring: |
| On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock – to complete the film from hours of shocking footage. Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation had missed its moment. Even in its incomplete form (available since 1984) the film was immensely powerful, generating an awed hush among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version produced by IWM, is being compared with Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog (1955). | |
| Release Date: | Jan 06, 2017 |
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| Director: | Sidney Bernstein |
| Writer: | Colin Wills, Richard Crossman |
| Genres: | History, Documentary |
| Keywords | concentration camp, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, liberation of prisoners, gas chamber |
| Production Companies | U.S. Office of War Information, Ministry of Information |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Trevor Howard | Narrator (fragment version) |
| Jasper Britton | Narrator (restored version) |
| Jane Wells | Self |
| David Cesarani | Self |
| Anne Fleming | Self |
| Adolf Hitler | Self (archive footage) |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Self (archive footage) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Alfred Hitchcock | Treatment |
| Stewart McAllister | Editor |
| Peter Tanner | Editor |
| Sergei Nolbandov | Production Supervisor |
| Sidney Bernstein | Director |
| Colin Wills | Writer |
| Richard Crossman | Writer |
| Ray Riley | Assistant Editor |
| George Smith | Editor |
| Donald Bowden | Assistant Editor |
| Toby Haggith | Researcher |
| Marcel Cohen | Editor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Sidney Bernstein | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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