Night Will Fall (2014)

Night Will Fall | United Kingdom| Denmark

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".

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Description

Director

André Singer

Stars

Helena Bonham Carter
Narrator

Jasper Britton
Narrator (German Concentration Camps Factual Survey)

Toby Haggith
Himself

Sidney Bernstein
Himself (archive footage)

Alfred Hitchcock
Himself (archive footage)

Billy Wilder
Himself (archive footage)

Others...

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Keywords

world war ii

Production

Spring Films, Final Cut for Real

Actor

Helena Bonham Carter, Jasper Britton, Toby Haggith, Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder

Creators

Stephen Frears (Producer), Brett Ratner (Producer), Arik Leibovitch (Editor), Aviv Aldema (Music Editor), André Singer (Director), Lynette Singer (Writer), Nicholas Singer (Original Music Composer), Richard Melman (Executive Producer), James Packer (Executive Producer), Richard Blanshard (Cinematography), Stephen Miller (Editor)

Alternative titles

Images de la libération des camps. Chronique d’un film inachevé (FR)
Hitchcoks Lehrfilm für die Deutschen (DE)

Release dates

11.10.2014 (US)
07.06.2014 (GB)
27.01.2015 (NO)
27.01.2015 (NL)
13.01.2015 (DE)
20.04.2017 (GR)