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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
This is an extraordinary record. But be warned. Once seen, these images cannot be unseen.
Night Will Fall
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- United Kingdom
- 2014
- · 113m
Director
André Singer
Cast
Helena Bonham Carter,
Jasper Britton,
Toby Haggith,
Sidney Bernstein,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Billy Wilder
Genre
Documentary
In 1945, the British Government commissioned a newsreel about the horrifying scenes from the recently liberated Nazi concentration camps, but upon its completion, it languished in British archives for nearly seven decades. In this documentary, researchers chronicle the making of the 1945 newsreel and detail the labor involved in its recovery and restoration.
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Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Night Will Fall proves a riveting, devastating, heartbreaking and deeply important film, one that you will likely never forget.
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Variety by Alissa Simon
Night not only conveys the almost unbelievable atrocities captured by the Russian, American and British camera teams and photographers, but also highlights the dedication of the team determined to document and disseminate this evidence and the changing policies of those in charge of postwar reconstruction.
80
The Telegraph
Night Will Fall isn’t simply a film about the war, it documents the power of emerging technologies to reveal and publicise war crimes - something that also feels acutely relevant today.
80
Total Film
The footage – discoveries made by the Allies in the liberated Nazi camps during 1945 – is graphic, terrible, unforgettable.
80
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
The original footage – devastatingly intimate; familiar yet alien – still stops us in our tracks more than six decades later.
80
Empire by David Parkinson
As startling and bleakly compelling as you'd expect from this rare combination of director and subject.
80
CineVue by Daniel Green
A harrowing but necessary insight into what the first Allied troops met as they stumbled upon the nightmare of the Holocaust.
80
Total Film by Ali Catterall
The footage – discoveries made by the Allies in the liberated Nazi camps during 1945 – is graphic, terrible, unforgettable.
80
The Telegraph by Anna Smith
Night Will Fall isn’t simply a film about the war, it documents the power of emerging technologies to reveal and publicise war crimes - something that also feels acutely relevant today.
75
The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth
As Night Will Fall shows, even in the darkest hour, sometimes the greatest heroes are those willing to stare bravely into humanity's worst depths and tell the world what happened.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
Inevitably harrowing and sickening in places, but with tender and uplifting moments, Night Will Fall is a somber treatment of a serious topic which earns its place in the broad pantheon of Holocaust-themed cinema. It is just a shame that Singer's worthy memorial feels a little too small for its world-shaking theme and world-famous cast list.
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