Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It&s April 1945 two weeks before the end of the war a British ambulance unit was diverted from frontline battle to handle a crisis behind enemy lines An outbreak of typhus in a nearby prison camp had prompted a local truce That camp was Bergen-Belsen The arriving British thought it would be a straightforward matter but they were utterly unprepared for the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe they faced 60000 inmates of the Belsen concentration camp
- dying of starvation disease & despair Under the guidance of Brigadier Glyn Hughes (Corin Redgrave) heroic 34-year-old Lt Col James Johnston (Iain Glen) is put in charge of the relief effort With a core team of just eight doctors & eight nurses
- plus Jewish dentist Dr Bimko (Frog Stone) & English volunteer nurse Jean Mc Farlane (Jemma Redgrave)
- he calls on the support of an international team of experts students inmates soldiers & POWs to work together to rehabilitate & evacuate the inmates This is the inspiring & extraordinary story of one of the most heroic medical relief operations in European history Using scripted drama testimony & extensive news footage from the &horror camp& The Relief of Belsen depicts the desperate struggle of the British-led medical team to bring the camp&s starving inmates back from the brink of death Actors Jemma Redgrave Tobias Menzies Simon Day Iain Glen Corin Redgrave Katrine Bach Oliver Ford Davies Iddo Goldberg Vern Griffiths Paul Hilton Nigel Lindsay Henry Pettigrew Erich Redman James Saunders Christopher Sloman & Frog Stone Director Justin Hardy Certificate 15 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 169 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 40 minutes (approx)


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