Film

One Day: A Report from a German Concentration Camp 1939

6.51965History War

Director: Egon Monk
Year: 1965

Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot.

Top cast

Eberhard Fechner

Mennes

Willem Fricke

Häftling 1263

Gert Haucke

Obersturmführer Rüttig, Lagerführer

Ernst Jacobi

Pfarrer

Hartmut Reck

Ernst Springer

Jochen Schenck

Vorarbeiter 632

Bruno Vahl-Berg

Fischer

Konrad Mayerhoff

Günter Meisner

Conny Palme

Sturmführer Eichner, Rapportführer

Directed by

Egon Monk

Written by

Gunther R. Lys, Claus Hubalek, Egon Monk