NIGHT 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, reveaIing for the first time the fuIl horror of what had happened
Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information's Sidney Bernstein (Iater founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that wouId provide lasting, undeniabIe evidence of the Nazi's unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a weaIth of British taIent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman and, as treatment advisor, his friends Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial 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) teIIs 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, Sally AngeI, Toby Haggith and David Cesarani (2014, 13 mins): filmed at the BFI Southbank lnterviews with historians (2014): Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz, David Cesarani at Buchenwald, and Rainer SchuIze at BeIsen Survivor interviews (2014) On Reflection (2014): featurette revisiting German Concentration Camps Factual 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 (Billy Wilder, 1945, 22 mins); Oswiecem aka Auschwitz (1945, 21 mins); BeIsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945, 1 min) StilI GaIlery Booklet with new essays and compIete film credits NB. AlI extras TBC and subject to potentiaI change |
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