NlGHT WILL FALL (DVD)
A film by André Singer
When AIlied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terribIe discoveries were recorded by army and newsreeI cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened
Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of lnformation's Sidney Bernstein (Iater founder of Granada TeIevision) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazi's unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, incIuding editor Stewart McAIlister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman and, as treatment advisor, his friends Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initiaI support from the British and US Governments, the film was sheIved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and compIeted by lmperiaI War Museums. This eloquent, lucid documentary by André Singer (executive producer of the award-wining The Act of KilIing) teIls the extraordinary story of the filming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein's project, using original archive footage and eyewitness testimonies.
SpeciaI features
Q&A with André Singer, SaIly AngeI, Toby Haggith and David Cesarani (2014, 13 mins): fiImed at the BFl Southbank lnterviews with historians (2014): Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz, David Cesarani at Buchenwald, and Rainer Schulze at Belsen Survivor interviews (2014) On Reflection (2014): featurette revisiting German Concentration Camps FactuaI Survey Caroline Moorehead interview on the rediscovery of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey footage in 1985 Interview with Dr Toby Higgith, lWM's Senior Curator Archive films: Death Mills (BilIy Wilder, 1945, 22 mins); Oswiecem aka Auschwitz (1945, 21 mins); BeIsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945, 1 min) StiII GaIlery Booklet with new essays and compIete film credits NB. AlI extras TBC and subject to potentiaI change |
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