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Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)
Directed by Llorenç Soler
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.
Length 57 minutes
Actors
José Sacristán | Joaquín López-Raimundo | Pilar Atrián | Pierre Daix | Mariano Constante | Agapito Martín | Manuel Azaustre | Juan de Diego | José Perlado | Manuel Alfonso | Jacinto Cortés | Francisco Comellas | Christina Bina | Leopoldine Drexler | Hans Marsalek | Pierre Durand | José Pàmies | Gisèle Guillemot | Ernst Kaltenbrunner | Francesc Boix