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Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)

Genre : Documentary, History, TV Movie

Runtime : 57M

Director : Lorenzo Soler

Synopsis

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.

Actors

José Sacristán
José Sacristán
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Joaquín López-Raimundo
Joaquín López-Raimundo
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Pilar Atrián
Pilar Atrián
Herself - Francesc Boix's Friend
Pierre Daix
Pierre Daix
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Mariano Constante
Mariano Constante
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Agapito Martín
Agapito Martín
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Manuel Azaustre
Manuel Azaustre
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Juan de Diego
Juan de Diego
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
José Perlado
José Perlado
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Manuel Alfonso
Manuel Alfonso
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Jacinto Cortés
Jacinto Cortés
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Francisco Comellas
Francisco Comellas
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Christina Bina
Christina Bina
Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter
Leopoldine Drexler
Leopoldine Drexler
Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter
Hans Marsalek
Hans Marsalek
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Pierre Durand
Pierre Durand
Himself - 'L'humanité' Ex-Editor-in-Chief
José Pàmies
José Pàmies
Himself - French Communist Party Member
Gisèle Guillemot
Gisèle Guillemot
Herself - 'Regards' Editorial Room Secretary
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Himself (archive footage)
Francesc Boix
Francesc Boix
Himself (archive footage)

Crews

Lorenzo Soler
Lorenzo Soler
Director
Lorenzo Soler
Lorenzo Soler
Writer
Eduardo Arbide
Eduardo Arbide
Original Music Composer
Lorenzo Soler
Lorenzo Soler
Director of Photography
Oriol Porta
Oriol Porta
Executive Producer
Amancia de Aguilera
Amancia de Aguilera
Producer
Pere Aguilar
Pere Aguilar
Sound
Marc Soldevila
Marc Soldevila
Sound
Miryam Mateos
Miryam Mateos
Delegated Producer

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