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''Night Will Fall'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Andre Singer that chronicles the making of the 1945 British government documentary ''German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.'' The 1945 documentary, which showed gruesome scenes from newly liberated Nazi concentration camps, languished in British archives for nearly seven decades and was only recently completed. The 1945 documentary, based on the work of combat cameramen serving with the armed forces and newsreel footage, was produced by Sidney Bernstein, then a British government official, with participation by Alfred Hitchcock. About 12 minutes of footage in this 75-minute film is from the earlier documentary.〔〔 The title of the film was derived from a line of narration in the 1945 documentary: “Unless the world learns the lesson these pictures teach, night will fall.” ==Synopsis== The film intersperses documentary film from German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, the 1945 documentary, with recent interviews with survivors and liberators. The producers, editors and cameramen who produced the 1945 documentary are featured, and its long delay is explored. As the film begins, Allied forces liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The camp commander, Josef Kramer, and the camp guards are taken as POWs. Other camps are shown being liberated, including Auschwitz and Majdanek in Poland, utilizing footage from Soviet cameramen that had been previously dismissed as atrocity propaganda. Civilians and German servicemen are shown being forced to tour the camps, past gruesome displays, including shrunken skulls. Film clips are shown of interviews with survivors: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch;〔 Eva Mozes Kor tells about the sight of soldiers in white camouflage uniforms, liberating the camp while it snowed, and the soldiers giving prisoners chocolate, cookies and hugs. Among the interviewed survivors is Branko Lustig, producer of ''Schindler's List'',〔 who speaks of how liberation brought soldiers playing bagpipes. At the time, Lustig was so weak he could not raise his body to look out the window, and he thinks that he is about to die, and he thought bagpipe music he was hearing was the music of angels. Lustig theorizes that the 1945 documentary was shelved for political reasons, saying “At this time, the Brits had enough problems with the Jews,”〔 a reference to the situation at the time in Palestine, then a League of Nations mandate under British control. The documentary includes a recording of an interview with Alfred Hitchcock on his involvement in the project, and clips of interviews with cameramen (who filmed at concentration camps after, or during, liberation, and recounts the production of ''German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,'' which included the assembling of a team that included "perhaps the best known film editor in London,' Stewart McAllister, Hitchcock and Richard Crossman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Night Will Fall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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