Important New/Old Film on the Shoah to be shown Monday Night on HBO Monday night at 9 PM on HBO, which is the night before the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau, a important film on the aftermath of the Holocaust will be shown. The movie os entitled “Night Will Fall.” The film contains original newsreel footage taken after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in 1945 by British, Soviet and American force. The supervising director Alfred Hitchcock of this footage which was shot at Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Auschwitz, to create a harrowing film titled “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.” NIGHT WILL FALL reveals the previously untold story of this deeply moving documentary. The film juxtaposes horrific raw footage and scenes from the 1945 documentary with insights from the survivors, the soldiers who liberated them and the filmmakers who recorded these appalling images. Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, NIGHT WILL FALL will have an encore presentation Tuesday, Jan. 27 on HBO2, when networks around the globe will also present it. Despite the 1945 documentary’s artistic pedigree, the initial support it received, and the use of some of the most riveting concentration-camp footage ever shot, the film was not widely seen. NIGHT WILL FALL tells the incredible story behind the film, featuring interviews with concentration-camp survivors, several of whom identify younger versions of themselves in the footage, as well as archival interviews with Bernstein (who later founded Granada Television), Hitchcock and director Billy Wilder. In the 1980s, original reels and notes from the documentary, which had been stored since 1952 in the archives at the Imperial War Museums (IWM) in London, were combined with a commentary read by actor Trevor Howard. However, the final reel was missing. Four years ago, the IWM began an ambitious project to digitize, restore and complete “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,” including the never-before-seen sixth reel. The finished film features heartbreaking interviews with survivors, soldiers, historians and archivists, which are presented along with unflinching, restored, rarely-seen archival footage and eyewitness testimony. NIGHT WILL FALL provides a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at how this forgotten documentary was made, and how it has finally been completed after 70 years. See the trailer here: https://youtube/watch?v=lbB9NCYzQVU
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:31:30 +0000
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