Memorandum (film)

Memorandum is a one-hour 1965 documentary co-directed by Donald Brittain and John Spotton, and produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada. It follows Bernard Laufer, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, on an emotional pilgrimage back to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Considered by many critics to be Brittain's finest work, the film's title refers to Hitler's memorandum about the "final solution."

A detailed analysis of the film's structure is available in Ken Dancyger's The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice.

Awards

 * Venice Film Festival, Venice: First Prize, Lion of St. Mark, 1966
 * Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: First Prize, Essay, 1966
 * Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver: Certificate of Merit, Television Films, 1966
 * Montreal International Film Festival, Montreal: Special Mention, Medium-Length Films, 1966