Cast:Helena Bonham Carter, Jasper Britton, Leonard Berney, George Leonard, Josef Kramer, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Mike Lewis, Bill Lawrie, Richard Dimbleby, David Dimbleby, Raye Farr, Toby Haggith, James William Illingworth, Alexander Voronstov, Matvey Gershman, Eva Mozes Kor, Vera Kriegel, Tomy Shacham, Arthur Mainzer, John Krish, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Branko Lustig, Peter Tanner, Menachem Rosensaft, Kay Gladstone, Billy Wilder, Sidney Bernstein, Benjamin Ferencz, Alfred Hitchcock, Malina Salinger
Synopsis
April 1945. In Germany, as World War II was drawing to a close and the Allied Forces were swarming into Berlin, groups of freshly trained combat cameramen documented the gruesome scenes behind the recently liberated Nazi concentration camps. Named "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey", the 1945 documentary for the British government was produced by Sidney Bernstein, with Alfred Hitchcock's participation. For nearly seven decades, the film was shelved in the British archives and was abandoned without a public screening--for either political reasons or shifted Government priorities--to be ultimately completed by a team of historians and film scholars of the British Imperial War Museum, who meticulously restored the original footage. Intertwined with interviews of both survivors and liberators, as well as short newsreel films and raw footage from the original film, the 2014 documentary chronicles the atrocities that occurred in the concentration and labour camps of Bergen-Belsen
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