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The Photographer of Mauthausen

The Photographer of Mauthausen

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 26, 2018

Runtime

1h 51m

Genres

Drama, History, Thriller

User Score

70%

Original Title

El fotógrafo de Mauthausen

Production Companies

Rodar y Rodar, Filmteam, TV3, Film Factory, TVE

Director

Mar Targarona

Description

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.