Night Will Fall (2014)
Genre: Documentary / History
Duration: 75 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: André Singer
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein
IMDb score:
8,0 (3.726)
Releasedate: 7 June 2014
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Night Will Fall plot
In April 1945, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British troops. Soldiers captured the liberation on film. They filmed the relief but also the terrifying reality of concentration camps full of emaciated deaths and near-deaths. The London producer Sidney Bernstein and Alfred Hitchcock have the important task of forging the many hours of material from different concentration camps into one whole: the documentary entitled German Concentration Camps. For the British government, the film was an important asset: it had to serve as proof of the systematic atrocities of the Nazi regime. Night Will Fall tells the story of the making of the film.
Actors and actresses
Narrator
Narrator (German Concentration Camps Factual Survey)
Himself
Himself (archive footage)
Himself (archive footage)
Himself (archive footage)
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 12190 messages
- 10362 votes
In the conversation with Francois Truffaut quoted in this film, Hitchcock does not once refer to a documentary with the gruesome images of the evacuation of the concentration camps. But according to the very reliable sources mentioned in this documentary [often in archive recordings], Hitchcock had a concrete proposal at the request of Sidney Bernstein [with whom he made the short propaganda films Bon Voyage and L'Aventure Malgache in 1944]. on how he would turn the recordings into a structured documentary. However, the documentary was never made, because the British authorities found the films too gruesome for the public and did not want to undermine the bond with Germany.
Director André Singer not only tells the story about this never-finished production, but also spoke to a number of people who were involved in the recordings in different ways: cameramen, but also soldiers and survivors who appear on screen. The result is a fascinating essay that of course cannot match "Shoah", but nevertheless provides a compelling picture of the atrocities on display. But Singer also forces you to ask yourself what you would have done if you had had to make a decision about this film. And all those facets have been worked out effectively.
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james_cameron
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- 7187 messages
- 9926 votes
Fascinating documentary about the making of the until recently unreleased film German Concentration Camps, composed of footage shot by Allied cameramen in the aftermath of the Second World War. The story surrounding the film's production and subsequent disappearance is fascinating enough, but the unique footage itself is of course the most interesting, no matter how gruesome it still is after all these years.
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Fransman
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- 3048 messages
- 2291 votes
Impressive documentary mainly about the liberation of the Bergen-Belden concentration camp (where Anne Frank also died). The images are shocking, but you know that in advance. Made by English and American cameramen who had to shut down their personal feelings to make these shots. But how do you do something like that? The film mainly focuses on what the documentary makers found in the camp, but other concentration camps are also discussed. Also comments on the involvement of Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein, who had to turn all those images into a logical and coherent whole shortly after the war. That is not this documentary by André Singer, which is recent. That made it a bit confusing for me.
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