The Photographer of Mauthausen

About The Photographer of Mauthausen

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.

The Photographer of Mauthausen is a 2018 history thriller film directed by Mar Targarona. Its themes are photographer, holocaust (shoah), nazi occupation, and nazism.

Mario Casas appears as Francesc Boix, Richard van Weyden as Ricken, Alain Hernández as Valbuena, and Adrià Salazar as Anselmo. It runs 111 minutes and was released in October 2018.

The screenplay is by Alfred Pérez-Fargas and Roger Danès. The film began as real events. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

Lee, The Zone of Interest, and Lore make useful companions to The Photographer of Mauthausen, all filed under 1940s and biography. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 769 votes and it carries a R rating.