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. 60 000 inmates of the Belsen concentration camp - dying of starvation disease and 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 and eight nurses - plus Jewish dentist Dr Bimko (Frog Stone) and English volunteer nurse Jean McFarlane (Jemma Redgrave) - he calls on the support of an international team of experts students inmates soldiers and POWs to work together to rehabilitate and evacuate the inmates. This is the inspiring and extraordinary story of one of the most heroic medical relief operations in European history. Using scripted drama testimony and 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. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and 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. 60,000 inmates of the Belsen concentration camp - dying of starvation, disease and 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 and eight nurses - plus Jewish dentist Dr Bimko (Frog Stone) and English volunteer nurse Jean McFarlane (Jemma Redgrave) - he calls on the support of an international team of experts, students, inmates, soldiers and POWs to work together to rehabilitate and evacuate the inmates. This is the inspiring and extraordinary story of one of the most heroic medical relief operations in European history. Using scripted drama, testimony and 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 and over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 16:9 Languages English Duration 1 hour and 40 minutes (approx)
Television drama about what happened when a British ambulance unit was diverted from the frontline to deal with the aftermath of the liberation of the concentration camp at Belsen. Believing they are on the way to a prisoner of war camp to assist with a medical emergency, the group are totally unprepared for the humanitarian catastrophe they find - 40,000 people living in horrific squalor; suffering from starvation and a lack of the most basic medical care. As an outbreak of Typhus spreads through the camp, the team struggles to cope with the immense task before them. Based on eyewitness accounts, the film stars Iain Glen, Corin Redgrave, Jemma Redgrave, Nigel Lindsay and Tobias Menzies, and reveals the extraordinary true story behind one of the most heroic medical relief operations in history.
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