Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell
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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.
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José Sacristán
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Pierre Daix
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Manuel Alfonso
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Himself (archive footage)
Gisèle Guillemot
Herself - 'Regards' Editorial Room Secretary
José Pàmies
Himself - French Communist Party Member
Pierre Durand
Himself - 'L'humanité' Ex-Editor-in-Chief
Hans Marsalek
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Leopoldine Drexler
Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter
Christina Bina
Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter
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