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“Clearly a work of passion and scholarship, it is both time capsule and teaching tool.” – Alissa Simon (Variety)
Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is proud to present the historical documentary film ‘Night Will Fall’. This includes a conversation with its director André Singer conducted by Paul Inman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment at Oxford Brookes University. This is the next documentary in this new semester of free weekly screenings, held at Oxford Brookes University every Thursday at 7pm in the John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre.
Released in 2014, André Singer’s ‘Night Will Fall’ is a documentary years in the making. It accounts the production of Sidney Bernstein’s 1945 film ‘German Concentration Camps Factual Survey’ with Alfred Hitchcock as supervising director. However, due to political authorities deeming it too sensitive for the changing political climate the project was abandoned.
70 years on, it has been restored and completed by Singer and Imperial War Museums. Using original archival footage and eyewitness testimonies from survivors and liberators, it chronicles this incredible story of Bernstein’s original project.
‘Night Will Fall’ is extremely powerful and astonishing record of the liberation of Nazi death camps, and as the opening quote suggests will educate as well as astonish. Tickets for this free screening can be booked through the Eventbrite link, and Whether you have attended a previous screening or are completely new to Oxford Brookes Documentary Club we can’t wait to share these unforgettable stories with you.