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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. Considered by many critics to be Brittain's finest work, the film’s title refers to Hitler’s memorandum about the “final solution.”
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.
Original Release
09/25/1967
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Bernard Laufer | Himself - Holocaust Survivor / Self - Holocaust Survivor |
Emil Bednarek | Himself - Auschwitz Guard / Self - Auschwitz Guard |
Wilhelm Boger | Himself - Auschwitz Guard / Self - Auschwitz Guard |
Arthur Breitwieser | Himself - Auschwitz Disinfectant Officer / Self - Auschwitz Disinfectant Officer |
Victor Capesius | Himself - Auschwitz Druggist / Self - Auschwitz Druggist |
Mr. Dreckmann | Himself - Holocaust Survivor / Self - Holocaust Survivor |
Zenon Gotaszewski | Himself - Holocaust Survivor / Self - Holocaust Survivor |
Glyn Hughes | Himself - British Army, Liberator of Belsen / Self - British Army, Liberator of Belsen |
Oswald Kaduk | Himself - Auschwitz Guard / Self - Auschwitz Guard |
Josef Klehr | Himself - Auschwitz Guard / Self - Auschwitz Guard |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Bernard Laufer | Himself - Holocaust Survivor / Self - Holocaust Survivor |
Emil Bednarek | Himself - Auschwitz Guard / Self - Auschwitz Guard |
Wilhelm Boger | Himself - Auschwitz Guard / Self - Auschwitz Guard |
Arthur Breitwieser | Himself - Auschwitz Disinfectant Officer / Self - Auschwitz Disinfectant Officer |
Victor Capesius | Himself - Auschwitz Druggist / Self - Auschwitz Druggist |
Mr. Dreckmann | Himself - Holocaust Survivor / Self - Holocaust Survivor |
Zenon Gotaszewski | Himself - Holocaust Survivor / Self - Holocaust Survivor |
Glyn Hughes | Himself - British Army, Liberator of Belsen / Self - British Army, Liberator of Belsen |
Oswald Kaduk | Himself - Auschwitz Guard / Self - Auschwitz Guard |
Josef Klehr | Himself - Auschwitz Guard / Self - Auschwitz Guard |
Dr. Kurzge | Himself - Holocaust Saviour / Self - Holocaust Saviour |
Joachim Kügler | Himself - Prosecutor / Self - Prosecutor |
Joey Laufer | Himself - Son of Survivor / Self - Son of Survivor |
Erik Lüth | Himself - Remorseful German / Self - Remorseful German |
Erika Millay | Herself - Holocaust Survivor / Self - Holocaust Survivor |
Robert Mulka | Himself - Auschwitz Adjutant / Self - Auschwitz Adjutant |
Norbert Prager | Himself - Holocaust Survivor, Funeral / Self - Holocaust Survivor, Funeral |
Josef Rosensaft | Himself - Holocaust Survivor / Self - Holocaust Survivor |
Giuseppe Saragat | Himself - President of Italy / Self - President of Italy |
Willi Schatz | Himself - Auschwitz Dentist / Self - Auschwitz Dentist |
Producers
Name | Role |
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John Kemeny | Producer |