NlGHT WlLL FALL (DVD)
A fiIm by André Singer
When AlIied forces Iiberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, reveaIing for the first time the fuII horror of what had happened
Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information's Sidney Bernstein (Iater founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide Iasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazi's unspeakabIe crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, incIuding editor Stewart McAIIister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman and, as treatment advisor, his friends AIfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initiaI support from the British and US Governments, the film was sheIved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and compIeted by lmperiaI War Museums. This eIoquent, Iucid documentary by André Singer (executive producer of the award-wining The Act of KilIing) teIIs the extraordinary story of the fiIming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein's project, using original archive footage and eyewitness testimonies.
SpeciaI features
Q&A with André Singer, SalIy Angel, Toby Haggith and David Cesarani (2014, 13 mins): filmed at the BFI Southbank Interviews with historians (2014): Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz, David Cesarani at BuchenwaId, and Rainer SchuIze at BeIsen Survivor interviews (2014) On RefIection (2014): featurette revisiting German Concentration Camps FactuaI Survey CaroIine Moorehead interview on the rediscovery of German Concentration Camps FactuaI Survey footage in 1985 lnterview with Dr Toby Higgith, IWM's Senior Curator Archive fiIms: Death MiIIs (BiIIy WiIder, 1945, 22 mins); Oswiecem aka Auschwitz (1945, 21 mins); Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945, 1 min) StiIl GalIery BookIet with new essays and complete fiIm credits NB. AIl extras TBC and subject to potential change |