Holocaust: Night Will Fall
12:10 am - 01:25 am, Wednesday, January 28 on Channel 4 (4)
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About this Broadcast
In 1945, the Ministry of Information's Sidney Bernstein was commissioned to make a documentary that would provide undeniable evidence of the Nazis' crimes. He assembled a team of film-makers including Alfred Hitchcock to record the true horror of the concentration camps, but despite initial government support, the project was deemed too politically sensitive and never broadcast. Now, 70 years later, Bernstein's film has been restored and completed by the Imperial War Museum, and this programme tells the story of its creation. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter
2014
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Helena Bonham Carter
(Narrator)
Born:
June 26, 1966
in
London
Best Known For:
Appearing in numerous period dramas.
Early-life:
Born May 26, 1966, in Golders Green, London. She has two older brothers. Her father, Raymond, was a prominent banker who was left quadriplegic and partially blind following an operation to remove a brain tumour in 1979. He died in 2004. Her mother, Elena, is a psychotherapist. At the age of 16, Helena won a national writing competition, and used the prize money to pay for her entry in the actors' directory Spotlight, but her big break came when her photo appeared in the magazine Tatler. Encouraged by her father, she decided against going to university and began considering film offers.
Career:
Helena's professional debut came at 16 in a TV commercial, swiftly followed by small-screen movie Pattern of Roses. The film Lady Jane followed, but it was 1985's A Room with a View which made her a star. Roles in Hamlet, Howards End and Frankenstein followed, and she was Oscar-nominated for 1997's The Wings of the Dove. The actress went on to prove she could do more than just period drama in projects such as Fight Club, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and lent her voice to animated movies Corpse Bride and Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. She made her musical debut in the big-screen version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She's since appeared in Dark Shadows, Les Miserables and Burton & Taylor, and played Bellatrix Lestrange in several of the Harry Potter movies.
Quote:
"I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone."
Trivia:
In 2014, she was appointed to Britain's national Holocaust Commission.
Andre Singer
(Director)
