Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)

Name: Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell
Director: Llorenç Soler
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2000-01-01
Duration: 57 min
Cast: José Sacristán, Joaquín López-Raimundo, Pilar Atrián, Pierre Daix, Mariano Constante

English, Spanish, French, Catalan 57m

Documentary History TV Movie

Directed by Llorenç Soler Starring José Sacristán

Release Date 01 Jan 2000

About Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell Movie

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000) is a Movie in the Documentary, History, TV Movie genre, available in English, Spanish, French, Catalan. It is directed by Llorenç Soler. The cast includes José Sacristán, Joaquín López-Raimundo, Pilar Atrián. 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.