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The Film is a BBC Radio 4 audio drama about the dependable story of Alfred Hitchcock ’s lost documentary about the Holocaust at the end of WWII .
Article Summary
The nameAlfred Hitchcockis synonymous with the suspense movie . He is considered one of the neat , if not the swell , music director of crime and suspense movies of all sentence . Now BBC Radio 4 has relinquish an audio dramatic play name The Film , which tells the true story of how his friend , the screenwriterSidney Bernstein , implored him to help create a documentary on the Belsen assiduity bivouac . The footage was one of the filmed papers of the Holocaust and the horrific extermination of Judaic the great unwashed by the Nazis . The government finally crush the film for political reasons , and it remained lost until its restoration only a few year ago . The audio drama is a beautifully - written and heartrending telling of the lawful story that is now more relevant than ever due to current upshot , and also an examination of filmmaking , truth , documentary film , storytelling , and a deconstructionism of Hitchcock the humankind and the film maker , let in the problematic contribution of his personality ( namely his tendency to sexually harass the actresses in his picture show during production ) .
“The Film” by Martin Jameson – Hitchcock’s Reluctant Mission
April 1945 . A Ministry of Information U. S. Army film crew enters Bergen - Belsen to tape the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust that many were already refusing to believe . But faced with all this footage , the head of the building block , Sidney Bernstein , is overwhelmed . He needs to get a film out there as shortly as possible , but how can he do justice to such suffering ? So he summons his protagonist Alfred Hitchcock from Hollywood . Bernstein , who later established Granada Television , determined that together they could produce an irrefutable cinematictestimony .
Sidney Bernstein – Henry Goodman , Alfred Hitchcock – Jeremy Swift , Richard Crossman – Geoffrey Streatfeild , Mrs Haig – Fenella Woolgar , Secretary – Hamilton Berstock . Production Co - ordinator – Vicky Moseley , Sound Design – Sharon Hughes , Technical Producer – Peter Ringrose , Studio Manager – Alison Craig , and Producer/ Director – Gary Brown .
A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 . Documentary filmmakerJane Wells , girl of Sidney Bernstein , assisted with the research for this dramatic event . The Filmis streaming as part of theBBC Drama of the Weekseries onmajor podcast outlets .
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