Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)

01/01/2000 (ES) • 57m

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

José Sacristán

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Joaquín López-Raimundo

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Pilar Atrián

Herself - Francesc Boix's Friend

Pierre Daix

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Mariano Constante

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Agapito Martín

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Manuel Azaustre

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Juan de Diego

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

José Perlado

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

photographer

concentration camp

holocaust (shoah)

world war ii

spanish civil war (1936-39)

biography

holocaust (shoah) survivor

dying young

nazi occupation

concentration camp survivor

1940s

spanish second republic (1931-39)

nazi trials

nazi war criminal

spanish republican

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