Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

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.

Directed by Llorenç Soler

Top cast

José Sacristán

Himself - Narrator (voice)

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Joaquín López-Raimundo

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Pilar Atrián

Herself - Francesc Boix's Friend

Pierre Daix

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Mariano Constante

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Agapito Martín

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Manuel Azaustre

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Juan de Diego

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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José Perlado

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Manuel Alfonso

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Jacinto Cortés

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Francisco Comellas

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Christina Bina

Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter

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Leopoldine Drexler

Herself - Anna Pointner's Daughter

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Hans Marsalek

Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner

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Pierre Durand

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

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José Pàmies

Himself - French Communist Party Member

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Gisèle Guillemot

Herself - 'Regards' Editorial Room Secretary

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Himself (archive footage)

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Francesc Boix

Himself (archive footage)

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