Description |
1 streaming video file (1 hr., 15 min.) |
Summary |
Documentary about the making of a 1945 film by director Alfred Hitchcock about the liberation of Europe by Allied forces. Commissioned by Sidney Bernstein, chief of the Psychological Warfare section of the Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), the film looks deep into what went on in the infamous German concentration camps. As it was deemed unsuitable to show at the time, it was stored away in the vaults of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and found 40 years later by an American researcher. Now, fully restored by the IWM's Dr. Toby Haggith, the footage is ready to be shown to audiences and this documentary tells the story of the lost film |
Notes |
Originally released in 2014 |
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Includes fragments of the documentary "German concentration camps factual survey" produced by Sidney Bernstein and Alfred Hitchcock; restored and completed by IWM in 2010-2014 |
Credits |
Director of photography, Richard Blanshard ; editors, Arik Lahav, Stephen Miler ; composer, Nicholas Singer ; executive producers, Richard Melman, James Packer, Stephen Frears |
Performer |
Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter ; with Jasper Britton, Leonard Berney, George Leonard, Branko Lustig |
Notes |
In English, Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles |
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Rated: 15+; footage of real Holocast victims |
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Description from landing page (Film Platform, viewed November 16, 2016) |
Subject |
War photographers.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Europe
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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Internment camps.
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War photographers.
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Atrocities.
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Europe.
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Genre/Form |
Streaming video
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Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film director
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Singer, André, 1945- film director.
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Angel, Sally, film producer
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Ratner, Brett, film producer
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Singer, Lynette, screenwriter
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Bonham Carter, Helena, 1966- narrator.
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Britton, Jasper, narrator
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Berney, Leonard, 1920- on-screen participant.
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Leonard, George (Soldier), on-screen participant.
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Lustig, Branko, on-screen participant
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Cinephil, Ltd., production company.
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Spring Films, production company.
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Angel TV, production company
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Association relative à la télévision européenne, production company.
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Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), production company.
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British Film Institute.
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RatPac Documentary Films, production company.
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