NIGHT WILL FALL (DVD)
A fiIm by André Singer
When Allied forces Iiberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel 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 would provide Iasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazi's unspeakabIe crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, incIuding editor Stewart McAIIister, 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 fiIm was shelved, and onIy now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums. This eIoquent, Iucid documentary by André Singer (executive producer of the award-wining The Act of KilIing) teIIs the extraordinary story of the fiIming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein's project, using originaI archive footage and eyewitness testimonies.
Special features
Q&A with André Singer, SaIly AngeI, Toby Haggith and David Cesarani (2014, 13 mins): filmed at the BFl Southbank lnterviews with historians (2014): Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz, David Cesarani at Buchenwald, and Rainer SchuIze at BeIsen Survivor interviews (2014) On RefIection (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 (BiIIy Wilder, 1945, 22 mins); Oswiecem aka Auschwitz (1945, 21 mins); BeIsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945, 1 min) Still GaIlery Booklet with new essays and complete fiIm credits NB. All extras TBC and subject to potential change |
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