Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

57 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Jan. 1, 2000

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.

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

57 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Jan. 1, 2000

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.
Producers Canal+ España, Área de Televisión
Original title Francisco Boix: un fotógrafo en el infierno
Directors Llorenç Soler
Writers Llorenç Soler

Cast

José Sacristán

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Joaquín López-Raimundo

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Pilar Atrián

as Herself - Francesc Boix's Friend

Pierre Daix

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Mariano Constante

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Agapito Martín

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Manuel Azaustre

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Juan de Diego

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

José Perlado

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Manuel Alfonso

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Jacinto Cortés

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Francisco Comellas

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Christina Bina

as Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter

Leopoldine Drexler

as Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter

Hans Marsalek

as Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

Pierre Durand

as Himself - 'L'humanité' Ex-Editor-in-Chief

José Pàmies

as Himself - French Communist Party Member

Gisèle Guillemot

as Herself - 'Regards' Editorial Room Secretary

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

as Himself (archive footage)

Francesc Boix

as Himself (archive footage)