The Photographer of Mauthausen
Based on an incredible real story
El fotógrafo de Mauthausen (2018)
Timing:
1:51 (111 min)
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Production
Genre
Drama, History, Thriller
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Director
Mar Targarona
Actors
Mario Casas, Richard van Weyden, Alain Hernández, Adrià Salazar, Eduard Buch, Stefan Weinert, Rubén Yuste, Nikola Stojanovic, Frank Feys, Marc Rodríguez
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Mar Targarona, Joaquín Padró, István Major
Operator
Aitor Mantxola
Composer
Diego Navarro
Artist
Audition
Editing
José Luis Romeu
All team (14)
All team (14)
Short description
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.
What's left behind the scenes
- In preparation for the role, Mario Casas took German lessons.
- According to the plot, the party took place in Austria in the spring, but filming was done in Budapest in winter. It had been snowing all day before that, so the film crew urgently had to melt the snow.
- In preparation for the role of the photographer, Mario Casas lost 15 kg.
- During the filming of the party, the temperature was -7 degrees Celsius, and the actors had to hold snow in their cheeks to cool their breath and prevent steam from coming out of their mouths.
- The character of Juan Negrin does not speak German. In reality, Negrin is the only Spanish actor in the film who spoke German fluently.
- On his son's birthday, the camp commandant Franz Ziereis (1905-1945) killed approximately forty prisoners.
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