To be released by the BFI (British Film Institute) in cinemas on 19 September, Night Will Fall is a new documentary about the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the efforts made by combat and newsreel cameramen to document the scenes encountered there.

Directed by André Singer (executive producer of the multi-award-winning The Act of Killing), it uses original archive footage and eyewitness testimonies to tell the story of the filming of the camps.

He says: “It has been an enormous privilege to talk to the soldiers who first entered the camps, the cameramen who lifted their cameras and filmed, the editors who viewed the footage, and the victims who suffered there and who were recorded on film in the first, unbelievable moments when rescue finally came.”

Night Will Fall is directed by André Singer for Spring Films and Angel TV, and produced by Sally Angel (Angel TV) and Brett Ratner (RatPac Documentary Films), with co-producers Philippa Kowarsky and Signe Byrge Sørenson.

Executive producers are Richard Melman, James Packer and Stephen Frears. The BFI has supported the documentary during production through the Film Fund.

Night Will Fall will be screened during the Cambridge Film Festival, on Tuesday 2 Sept at 18:00, followed by a Q&A.

Photo courtesy: BFI / Imperial War Museums