German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

Synopsis

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).

Main Cast

Trevor Howard

Narrator (fragment version)

Age : 74 | Popularity : 70%

Jasper Britton

Narrator (restored version)

Age : 61 | Popularity : 17%

Jane Wells

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

David Cesarani

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Anne Fleming

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 87%

Alfred Hitchcock

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Crew

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

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