Filming the Camps: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens, from Hollywood to Nuremberg Exposition at Farmington Hills
Monday, July 16, 2018December 30, 2018
George Stevens and his team, France, 1944 © Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California
Opening: July 26, 2018 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Workshop for teachers and educators: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 (from 9 am to 3:30 pm)
«Filming in the camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens».
The exhibition produced by the Mémorial de la Shoah 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 the Second World War, and later "Man of the Lost Valleys" (Stevens) and "Beyond Glory" (Fuller), after spending time in uniform, in Europe.
They filmed for this reason the daily life of the war and the opening of concentration camps. Their images constitute an essential visual testimony on the reality of the Second World War. The film editing their shootings shows, in particular, images of the opening of the Dachau camp accompanied by written notes from the directors.
