Night will fall / BFI Film Forever [and three others present] ; a Spring Films and Angel TV production ; in co-operation with Cinephil [and three others] ; in co-operation with ARTE [and two others] ; a film by André Singer ; producers, Sally Angel, Brett Ratner ; written by Lynette Singer.
Publisher:
BFI,
Copyright Date:
2015?
Description:
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages ; 18 cm)
German concentration camps factual survey. Death Mills Oświȩcim. Belsen Death Camp leaders meet justice.
Notes:
Coded for region 2; user must have a DVD player that will play region 2 DVDs. Non-US format, will not play on standard machines. Dates from package copyright on container. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter ; Alfred Hitchcock (archive footage) ; Sidney Bernstein. Originally released as documentary in 2014. Booklet (32 pages ; illustrations) with full credits and essays by Nick James, André Singer, Toby Haggith and Patrick Russell inserted in container. 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. Special features: original trailer; US propaganda film about the Nazi concentration camps Death Mills (Hanuš Burger and Billy Wilder ; 1946 ; 22 min.); Russian propaganda film about the Nazi concentration camp Oświȩcim (Auschwitz) (1945 ; 22 min.); Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945, 2 mins): short newsreel about the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg; Night Will Fall--Panel Discussion (2014 ; 13 mins); Interview with Dr. Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz Concentration Camp (2014 ; 24 mins); Interview with Professor Rainer Schulze at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp (2014 ; 28 mins); interview with Professor David Cesarani at Buchenwald Concentration Camp (2014 ; 25 mins); Interview with Caroline Moorehead (2014 ; 13 mins); stills gallery.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.