The Photographer of Mauthausen

8/30/2026

With Franco perfectly happy for the Nazis to do his dirty work for him, many of those communists fleeing the new Fascist regime in Spain found themselves imprisoned in labour camps. One such prisoner is Francesc Boix (Mario Casas) who cottons on fairly quickly that the survival rate in this place isn't high. Luckily for him though, they are sticklers for red tape and that means photographs - and he knows how to take and develop them. He manages to ingraties himself with "Ricken" (Richard van Weyden) and is soon a sort of trusty, safe(r) from the atrocities being carried out by both the camp guards and by their empowered "Kapo" - a few crooks, murderers and rapists given the job of policing any resistance from amongst their own numbers. The more work he does, the more abhorred Boix becomes