THE PORTRAITIST
One of the most interesting
true stories world
has ever known...
A POLISH PHOTOGRAPHER
TRAPPED IN THE HELL
OF AUSCHWITZ
The powerful memoir of a "Geheimnistrager" who faced certain
death to uncover the darkest
secrets of III Reich
FROM SUFFERING
TO SALVATION
The Portraitist is a prison thriller
combining the elemental humanity of
The Shawshank Redemption withthe historical force of Shindler's List
"Auschwitz was the
manifestation of all
empirical reality"
-Jerzy Nowosielski
AUSCHWITZ
UNKNOWN
A script from a Polish-American
team based on a award-winning
productions and an international
cast and crew will guarantee
box office success
"I was assigned a
camp number 3444"
"We were told that we no
longer have names.
We were not people
but prisoners"
-Wilhelm Brasse
A FATEFUL
TRIANGLE...
Villy, Ania and the evil
Dr. Joseph Mengele
Villy Brasse was a young artist
imprisoned at auschwitz and forced to be its official documentarian. Amidts the horrors of the death camp Villy bonds together with a spirited cast of fellow prisoners united in a desire to live.
Villy learned how to survive, proving that man can triumph over anything - even himself
Villy is given an unrefusable offer of
being put to work behind the camera
as a "priviledged" slave laborer. He
didn't realize he would be forced to
photograph tens of thousands of
his doomed fellow prisoners. When
Villy falls in love with Anna, the
indentured nurse of Dr. Mengele,
he turns his camera into the ultimate
weapon of witness and justice
In the end, Villy saved more than 40,000
photos - the only surviving evidence of the world's most infamous crime
against humanity
To re-establish control,
the diabolical
Dr. Mengele takes
advantage of his
power over
Villy and Ania
Based on
multi-award
winning
productions
The authors have based their script on
Irek Dobrowolski's award-winning 2005
documentary The Portraitist and
Anna Dobrowolska's 2013 in-depth
documentary novel
The Auschwitz Photographer
Human behavior in extreme conditions
has fascinated audiences for centuries.
Nowhere have conditions been more
extreme than the infamous Nazi
death-camp system. We have all heard about Auschwitz but few know the
ruthless organization, the unholy
operation as intimately as Villy
A gripping true story of remarkable
heroism, THE PORTRAITIST will show the persistence of humanity in the
hellscape of Auschwitz I
Auschwitz
as audiences
have never
seen before
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