Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)

5.6 January 1, 2000 57m Released

Documentary History TV Movie

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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Cast

José Sacristán

Himself - Narrator (voice)
Joaquín López-Raimundo

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Pilar Atrián

Herself - Francesc Boix's Friend
Pierre Daix

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Mariano Constante

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Agapito Martín

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Manuel Azaustre

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Juan de Diego

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
José Perlado

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Manuel Alfonso

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Jacinto Cortés

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Francisco Comellas

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Christina Bina

Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter
Leopoldine Drexler

Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter

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