Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

2000

Documentary History TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Llorenç Soler

Cast

Agapito Martín as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Joaquín López-Raimundo as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

José Perlado as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

José Sacristán as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Juan de Diego as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Manuel Alfonso as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Manuel Azaustre as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Mariano Constante as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner