Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

IMDb 5.0 2000 • 57 min • DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

Director

Llorenç Soler

Country

ES

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

José Sacristán
José Sacristán Himself - Narrator (voice)
Joaquín López-Raimundo
Joaquín López-Raimundo Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Pilar Atrián
Pilar Atrián Herself - Francesc Boix's Friend
Pierre Daix
Pierre Daix Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Mariano Constante
Mariano Constante Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner