''The Photographer of Mauthausen'' ( es, El fotógrafo de Mauthausen, links=no) is a 2018 Spanish

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directed by starring

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, and

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. The film tells the history of the photographer

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during his life in the

Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany ...

. Actor Mario Casas lost 12 kg in weight while preparing to play the part of the malnourished Boix.

Plot

Based on the true story of Spanish Civil War veteran Francisco Boix, a prisoner at Nazi German Mauthausen concentration camp, who preserved and hid photographs of the conditions at camp. Boix and his fellow prisoners risked their lives to save negatives and evidence of the atrocities committed at Mauthausen.

Cast

Production

The film is a Rodar y Rodar, We Produce 2017 AIE and Filmteam production, and it had the participation/collaboration of

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, ICCA, ICEC, and

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Release

Distributed by

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, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 26 October 2018.

Accolades

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33rd Goya Awards The 33rd Goya Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AACCE), honored the best in Spanish films of 2018 and took place at the Conference and Exhibition Centre of Seville on 2 February 2019. The ceremony ...

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References

External links

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