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.

Details

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

Pierre Durand

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

José Pàmies

Himself - French Communist Party Member

Gisèle Guillemot

Herself - 'Regards' Editorial Room Secretary

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Himself (archive footage)

Francesc Boix

Himself (archive footage)