German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (2017)

A lost masterpiece of British documentary cinema from 1945

  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2017-01-06
  • User Rating: 7.3/10 from 16 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 15min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Ministry of Information
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Sidney Bernstein
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Summary

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock – to complete the film from hours of shocking footage. Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation had missed its moment. Even in its incomplete form (available since 1984) the film was immensely powerful, generating an awed hush among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version produced by IWM, is being compared with Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog (1955).

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  • Trevor Howard

    as Narrator (fragment version)
  • Jasper Britton

    as Narrator (restored version)
  • Jane Wells

    as Self
  • David Cesarani

    as Self
  • Anne Fleming

    as Self
  • Adolf Hitler

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Alfred Hitchcock

    as Self (archive footage)
Crew Alfred Hitchcock Treatment
Production Sidney Bernstein Producer
Editing Peter Tanner Editor
Directing Sidney Bernstein Director
Production Sergei Nolbandov Production Supervisor
Editing Stewart McAllister Editor
Writing Richard Crossman Writer
Writing Colin Wills Writer
Editing Ray Riley Assistant Editor
Editing George Smith Editor
Editing Donald Bowden Assistant Editor
Production Toby Haggith Researcher
Editing Marcel Cohen Editor