Memorandum (film)
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Directed by
Written byDonald Brittain
Produced byJohn Kemeny
Starring
- Bernard Laufer
- Emil Bednarek
- Wilhelm Boger
- Arthur Breitwieser
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| Written by | Donald Brittain |
| Produced by | John Kemeny |
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| Cinematography | John Spotton |
| Edited by | John Spotton |
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Running time | 58 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Memorandum is a one-hour 1965 documentary co-directed by Donald Brittain and John Spotton, and produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada.[1] It follows Bernard Laufer, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, on an emotional pilgrimage back to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.[2] Considered by many critics to be Brittain's finest work, the film's title refers to Hitler's memorandum about the "final solution."[3]
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.[4]
