None Shall Escape
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
Directed by Hungarian emigré André de Toth and written by Lester Cole, soon to become a member of the Hollywood Ten, this unflinching look at the rise of Nazism right before the end of the war was the first Hollywood film to address Nazi genocide.
The Hungarian emigré André de Toth directed this unflinching look at the rise of Nazism right before the end of the war, the first Hollywood film to address Nazi genocide. Written by Lester Cole, soon to become a member of the Hollywood Ten, None Shall Escape is structured as a series of flashbacks that dramatize the testimony of witnesses in a near-future postwar tribunal. Alexander Knox is the German everyman, a WWI vet who slowly, gradually accepts National Socialism and becomes a mass murderer. With Marsha Hunt—her career and Knox’s would both be affected by the Red Scare. A Sony Pictures Repertory release.
4K digital restoration from original nitrate negative and original nitrate track negative.
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