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The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
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The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
Original name: El fotógrafo de Mauthausen
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 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.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, period piece, costume drama, rough, tense, captivating, retro, freeze frame, interesting
Plot: holocaust, nazi, nazism, concentration camp, world war two, nazi occupation, nazi concentration camp, shoah, nazi war criminal, slave labor, spanish civil war, concentration camp survivor, photograph, prisoner, world war, biopic, prison, photography, forced prostitution, sadistic violence, war, military, capitalism, mission, foreigner ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1943, year 1944
Place: spain, germany, central europe

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Duration: 195 min.
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Duration: 118 min.
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The Round Up (2010)
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Duration: 105 min.
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Duration: 121 min.
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Style: bad ending, factual, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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