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German concentration camps factual survey : a lost masterpiece of British documentary dinema from 1945 / restored and completed by IWM ; produced by Sidney Bernstein.
LIBRA BLU RAY 031 569
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Czech
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Polish
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe--Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Sources.
- Atrocities.
- Internment camps.
- Liberty.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Sources.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Historical films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- London : BFI, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English with some dialogue in German; optional subtitles in English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, Region A; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
- digital optical stereo Dolby Digital
- full screen (1.33:1)
- video file Blu-ray region A
- Summary:
- On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the German concentration camps was screened at the Ministry of Information in London. For five months Sidney Bernstein had led a small team, including Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock, to complete the film from hours of footage. But this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into accepting the Allied occupation had missed its moment and was eventually shelved, unfinished. Even in its incomplete form, however, the film proved immensely powerful, generating a shocked silence among audiences. Now completed to its intended six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version, produced by Imperial War Museums (IWM) and with a newly recorded narration by Jasper Britton, has been rightly compared to Alain Resnais' Night and Fog (1955).
- Participant:
- Narrated by Jasper Britton, Alfred Hitchcock (archive footage), or Sidney Bernstein.
- Notes:
- This film was compiled from material shot by combat and newsreel cameramen of Great Britain, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1944-1945.
- Issued by the publisher as part of a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. University of Pennsylvania Libraries have cataloged these items separately.
- Includes fragments of the documentary "German concentration camps factual survey" produced by Sidney Bernstein and Alfred Hitchcock; restored and completed by IWM in 2010-2014.
- Special features: New restoration by IWM (Imperial War Museums) -- Presented with optional Intro and Outro that help to contextualize the film -- Panel discussion at BFI Southbank (2015, 42 mins) -- Audio commentary with Dr. Toby Haggith and senior nonfiction curator Patrick Russel (BFI) -- Vox Pops Compilation (2015, 6 mins) -- Interview with Ludwig Weill at Fort Breendonk (1944, 3 mins) -- Interviews at Bergen-Belsen (1945, 18 mins) -- Interviews at Dachau (1945, 38 mins) -- Interview with Dr. Petr Zenkl (1945, 13 mins) -- Archival soundtrack -- 80 page book with comprehensive essays on the making of the film and its restoration, and full film credits.
- OCLC:
- 1082266306
- Publisher Number:
- BFIB1272/1 BFI
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