This info came from a newsletter from the American Gathering and I thought it was important enough to copy and share with everyone. Mark your calendars and set up to record... This issue of our newsletter features an article about the upcoming broadcast of Night Will Fall, a documentary by Alfred Hitchcock which will premiere on Monday, January 26 at 9 pm on HBO and be shown again to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tues. Jan. 27 on HBO2. When British, Soviet and American forces liberated Nazi concentration camps in 1945, army and newsreel cameramen recorded the terrible discoveries they made. Later, Sidney Bernstein of the British governments Ministry of Information and his team, including supervising director Alfred Hitchcock, drew on this footage, 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. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, directed by André Singer and produced by Sally Angel and Brett Ratner, 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. Despite the 1945 documentarys artistic pedigree, the initial support it received, and the use of some of the most riveting concentration-camp footage ever shot, Bernsteins project has not been 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. This is an event you will not want to miss.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:22:09 +0000
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