27 Apr 1959
Night and Fog
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Frozen Hell
Travel guide of Finland 1941-42
During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most of the archives of the camps were destroyed and the majority of the war crimes were never revealed.
Top Billed Cast
Vilma Melasniemi Narrator (voice)
Eero Saarinen Narrator (voice)
Antti Virmavirta Narrator (voice)
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