Memorandum (film)
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Produced by | John Kemeny |
Written by | Donald Brittain |
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Cinematography | John Spotton |
Edited by | John Spotton |
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58 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Memorandum is a one-hour 1965 documentary co-directed by Donald Brittain and John Spotton, following Bernard Laufer, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, on an emotional pilgrimage back to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada, the film received several awards including a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival.[1] Considered by many critics to be Brittain's finest work, the film’s title refers to Hitler’s memorandum about the “final solution.”[2]
A detailed analysis of the film's structure is available in Ken Dancyger's The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice.[3]
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- Watch Memorandum at NFB.ca
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Memorandum at IMDb
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- 1967 films
- English-language films
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- 1965 films
- Canadian films
- Films directed by Donald Brittain
- National Film Board of Canada documentaries
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Documentary films about the Holocaust
- 1960s documentary films
- Canadian black-and-white films
- Historical documentary film stubs
- Canadian documentary film stubs