German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (2017)

ALL 01/06/2017 (en) Documentary, History 75 Min
  • Release
    01/06/2017
  • Production
    Ministry of Information, U.S. Office of War Information
  • Rotten tomato
    73%
  • Original title
    German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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).

  1. Sidney Bernstein

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Sidney Bernstein

    Producer



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  1. Trevor Howard

    Narrator (fragment version)

  2. Jasper Britton

    Narrator (restored version)

  3. Jane Wells

    Self

  4. David Cesarani

    Self

  5. Anne Fleming

    Self

  6. Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Alfred Hitchcock

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 13

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German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (2017) 75 Min

ALL 01/06/2017 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 01/06/2017
  • Production
    Ministry of Information, U.S. Office of War Information
  • Original title German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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).

  1. Sidney Bernstein

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Stewart McAllister, Peter Tanner, George Smith, Marcel Cohen

    Editor

  4. Sidney Bernstein

    Producer