Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell
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.
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
Hans Marsalek
Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner
Storyline
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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