None Shall Escape
Andre De Toth, 1944, 85 min
UK premiere of the restored version

Introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht

Straight from Locarno International Film Festival's mammoth Columbia Pictures retrospective, this visionary masterpiece by Hungarian emigre director Andre De Toth anticipates the Nuremberg trials and the formation of the United Nations.

"A rare act of witness about Nazi crimes at a time when they were still being committed (1944), speculatively framed as a postwar international tribunal focusing on the career of a schoolteacher who becomes a Nazi officer, played by Canadian actor Alexander Knox. Lester Cole scripted from an Oscar-nominated story." – Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Ehsan Khoshbakht will present his new book, The Lady with the Torch: Columbia Pictures, 1929-59 copies of which can be purchased at the end of the event.

Never on Sunday is a series of screenings of rare classics, archive masterpieces, obscure delights and forgotten gems carefully curated and introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht and taking place the last Sunday of each month at Close-Up.