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.
The Photographer of Mauthausen
“Based on an incredible real story”
Overview
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.
Director
Mar Targarona
Revenue
2.7M
Status
Released
Production
Rodar y Rodar, Filmteam, TV3, Film Factory, TVE
Cast
Mario Casas
Francesc Boix
Richard van Weyden
Ricken
Alain Hernández
Valbuena
Adrià Salazar
Anselmo
Eduard Buch
Fonseca
Stefan Weinert
Ziereis
Rubén Yuste
Rosales
Nikola Stojanovic
Bonarewitz
Frank Feys
'Popeye'
Marc Rodríguez
Nurse
Albert Mora
Musician
Joan Negrié
'Lejías'
Luka Peroš
Schultz
Rainer Reiners
Poschacher
Toni Gomila
Francisco
Macarena Gómez
Dolores
Emilio Gavira
Prisoner A. K.
Soma Zámbori
Chmielewski
Erik Gyarmati
Siegfried
Márta Holler
Anna Pointner
Dénes Ujlaki
Albert Pointner
Roger Vilà
One-eyed Kid
Igor Szpakowski
Pérez
Francesc Boix
Self (archive footage)
Juan Carlos Ramil
SS Officer (uncredited)
