Memorandum

1967
7.8| 0h58m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 25 September 1967 Released
Producted By: ONF | NFB
Country: Canada
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.nfb.ca/film/memorandum
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A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory. This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen Belsen, the last of 11 concentration camps where he was held by the Nazis. He and 30 other former Jewish inmates travel through the new Germany. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The memorandum of the title refers to Hitler's memo offering a "final solution" to the "Jewish problem."

Genre

Documentary

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Cast

Director

Donald Brittain, John Spotton

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

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TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film
LouHomey From my favorite movies..
Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
George Wright Made in the mid-1960's when the Jewish holocaust was still largely ignored, this National Film Board of Canada documentary is one of the most moving tributes to to the millions who died in the death camps and those who survived and carry the psychological scars and the memories of spouses, parents, children, brothers, sisters, friends who were brutalized, starved or consigned to oblivion. Signs point to extermination sites with the stark numbers of those who were put to death. Without resorting to emotional language, the film goes to the core truth that this happened in a supposedly advanced civilization with the world sitting on the sidelines. Because the narration is sombre and the camera work so stark in black and white, the message is powerful. The makers of the film wisely chose not to dramatize such a story, charged as it is with deep, gut-wrenching sorrow.