German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

2017/01/06 • Released • English

Documentary
History
7.3
1h 15m

A lost masterpiece of British documentary cinema from 1945

Overview

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).

Director : Sidney Bernstein

Casts
Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard

Narrator (fragment version)

Jasper Britton

Jasper Britton

Narrator (restored version)

Jane Wells

Self

David Cesarani

Self

Anne Fleming

Self

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Self (archive footage)

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