The Relief of Belsen
Release Date: 2007-10-15
Overview: In early April 1945 a small British ambulance unit was diverted from frontline battle in northern Germany, to handle an unfolding medical crisis behind enemy lines. A local prison camp had suffered an outbreak of typhus. That prison camp was Bergen-Belsen. The British had no idea of the true scale of this humanitarian catastrophe nor of what it would come to represent.
Rating: 5.5 / 10
Cast
Katrine Bach
as Lotti Burns
Simon Paisley Day
as Major Stadler
Oliver Ford Davies
as Martin Lipscomb
Iain Glen
as James Johnston
Corin Redgrave
as Glyn Hughes
Crew
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Justin Hardy - Director
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Justin Hardy - Writer
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Peter Guinness - Writer
Reviews
Sometimes it seems like 10% of all movies made these days concern World War II, and I am so over battle scenes. But this movie dates from 2007 and involves behind the scenes drama, so I gave it a try....