Filming the Camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens Exhibition in Dallas

George Stevens and his team, France, 1944 © Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California

"Filming in the camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens".

The exhibition produced by the Shoah Memorial, which will be presented to the public in Dallas in the United States, aims to show a little-known aspect of the work of the three great American directors.

These directors produced great films such as "The Grapes of Wrath" (Ford), made before World War II, and later "Man of the Lost Valleys" (Stevens) and "Beyond Glory" (Fuller), after spending time in uniform in Europe.

They filmed daily life during the war and the opening of concentration camps. Their images constitute an essential visual testimony on the reality of the Second World War. The editing film of their shootings shows, in particular, images of the opening of the Dachau camp accompanied by written notes from the directors.