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Synopsis:
Docu-drama using scripted events, testimony and news footage to depict the struggle of the British-led medical team to rescue the starving inmates of camp Bergen-Belsen. In April 1945, a British ambulance unit was diverted from the frontline to handle a crisis in enemy territory - an outbreak of typhus in a nearby prison camp. Amidst the continuing war, a team of doctors, nurses and volunteers, without a common language, worked to save the starving and dying of Belsen
Cast:
Iain Glen as James 'Johnny' Johnston, Nigel Lindsay as Mervyn Gonin, Jemma Redgrave as Jean 'Mac' McFarlane, Corin Redgrave as Glyn Hughes, Tobias Menzies as Derrick Sington, Oliver Ford Davies as Martin Lipscomb, Iddo Goldberg as Emmanuel Fisher, Paul Hilton as Rabbi Hardman, Frog Stone as Dr Hadassah Bimko, Simon Paisley Day as Stadler, Henry Pettigrew as Alex Paton, Chris Sloman as Cecil Warren, Vern Griffiths as Richard Dimbleby, Katrine Bach as Lotti Burns, Erich Redman as Eckhardt
Credits:
Justin Hardy - Director, Sue Horth - Producer
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