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Night Will Fall
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".
Release : | 2014 |
Rating : | 8 |
Studio : | Spring Films, Final Cut for Real, |
Crew : | Cinematography, Director, |
Cast : | Helena Bonham Carter Jasper Britton Alfred Hitchcock Billy Wilder George S. Patton |
Genre : | Documentary |
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An unexpected masterpiece
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
If you're looking to see the actual film, it's not here & there is no clue to where it is."German Concentration Camps Factual Survey" is the film. Where is it? Don't bother clicking on anything on YouTube. Nothing there but ads & still shots of studio logos.Other than that HUGE letdown, this is a wonderful documentary. The very end is most poignant to SEE the apathy of Germans who lived down the road throughout the atrocities.
NIGHT WILL FALL is a shocking film indeed, containing as it does plenty of real-life 'death footage' from the Nazi concentration camps. Only strong stomachs need apply here, as the film features close-up clips of numerous dead bodies being thrown around and disposed of. It's certainly the most shocking WW2 footage that I've yet seen. It's disturbing and makes for incredibly harrowing viewing, but at the same time it's incredibly worthy. Lest we forget, and all that.The structure and narrative of this documentary is less revealing. There's a tenuous link to Alfred Hitchcock here, even though he had little to do with the actual production of the concentration camp films (other than acting as an adviser). Still, when the material is this distressing, the images speak for themselves, making NIGHT WILL FALL unmissable viewing.
As I watched this gut wrenching documentary, I found it hard to believe that there are people in the western world who think we should not take every means necessary to eradicate groups like ISIS. We have a holocaust unfolding before our very eyes on the internet and television, yet millions of people are against taking action against these barbaric, ideologically driven monsters. Perhaps we have become so pampered by our luxurious lives that we can compartmentalize those actions as "someone else's problem" or taking place in a "place far from home". Maybe we are too cowardly to make personal sacrifice for the greater good of humanity. Maybe we have become too optimistic, thinking that there is good in all people. As someone who has faced these "people" face to face, I can assure you that there is nothing redeeming about these demons. They would rape your infant daughter right in front of you, decapitate her and laugh in your face with absolutely no remorse. If we allow this enemy to strengthen, our society has about 5-7 years left.
As above, a factual and irrefutable documentary about the appalling conditions experienced in concentration camps, and the simply dreadful outcome suffered by so many of those who were interned.The scenes were graphic and disturbing, and if they seem repetitive, then that is because the atrocities were so commonplace. It was not a performance, the film is a factual record, thus the purpose in making it was to educate those who want to know the truth, not to entertain anyone.As the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz fell this week, I felt that this film serves to help educate all of us who who were not even born at the time of such events. To help us understand the depths of depravity that mankind is capable of, to help us to understand the dreadful consequences of any kind of racism and to remind us that it shouldn't be necessary to have a war to draw allies together (how many people are aware that a staggering 26M Russians were killed in the process of defeating the Nazis?) A monumental and depressing work, brought together as a lesson to us all that this must never happen again