Memorandum (film)

Memorandum
Directed by
Written byDonald Brittain
Produced byJohn Kemeny
Starring
CinematographyJohn Spotton
Edited byJohn Spotton
Production
company
Release date
  • 1965 (1965)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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.[1] Considered by many critics to be Brittain's finest work, the film's title refers to Hitler's memorandum about the "final solution."[2]

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.[3]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Memorandum". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Donald Brittain". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Film Reference Library. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  3. ↑ Dancyger, Ken (2002). "Analysis of documentary sequences: Memorandum". The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Elsevier. pp. 302–314. ISBN 0-240-80420-1.
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