Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

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Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

Ratings: IMDB 7.2 / TMDB

Francisco Boix, un fotógrafo en el infierno

Director
Lloren Soler
Region
Spain
Genre
Documentary
Released
2002-08-11
Runtime
57
Original language
Spanish
Keywords
biography, world war ii, 1940s, photographer, holocaust (shoah), spanish civil war (1936-39), concentration camp, nazi occupation, holocaust (shoah) survivor, spanish second republic (1931-39), nazi war criminal, dying young

Overview

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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