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Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)

History TV Movie Documentary
Release Date: 2000, January 1
Directors: Llorenç Soler
Countries: Spain
Production: Área de Televisión, Canal+ España, Canal+ España
Cast: José Sacristán, Gisèle Guillemot, Francesc Boix, Pierre Daix, Pierre Durand, Joaquín López-Raimundo, Pilar Atrián, Mariano Constante, Agapito Martín, Manuel Azaustre, Juan de Diego, José Perlado

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.

Keywords:

biography world war ii 1940s photographer concentration camp holocaust (shoah) spanish civil war (1936-39) nazi occupation holocaust (shoah) survivor concentration camp survivor dying young nazi war criminal spanish second republic (1931-39) spanish republican nazi trials