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]
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Written by | Donald Brittain |
Produced by | John Kemeny |
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Cinematography | John Spotton |
Edited by | John Spotton |
Production company | National Film Board of Canada |
Release date | 1965 |
Running time | 58 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
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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