Credit: George ChinEric Clapton has composed the score for a new documentary titled Three Days in Auschwitz that will premiere July 24 at the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. The movie, by acclaimed director Philippe Mora, focuses on the crimes against humanity that the Nazis committed during the Holocaust and how Mora’s own family was affected.
Clapton co-produced the documentary with Mora, whom he befriended in 1967 when both men lived at an artists’ colony called The Pheasantry in the Chelsea section of London. Eric also produced Philippe’s first film, 1969’s Trouble in Molopolis, and wrote music for the director’s 1989 sci-fi flick Communion.
“This was a unique and trusting collaboration between old friends,” Mora tells the official Clapton fan site Where’s Eric! about Three Days in Auschwitz. “I was simply blown away by Eric’s score for this film which combined the tragedy of the events with a celebration of life. He created music with great dignity and emotional power. In my opinion, this is one for the ages.”
You can hear segments of Clapton’s score in the trailer for the documentary, which has been posted on Mora’s official YouTube channel.
The movie includes footage of trips Mora made to the sites of the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in 2010 and 2012. As the filmmaker explains, the visits “triggered an ongoing personal investigation into the matrix of Holocaust Restitution, with the Morawskis, my murdered family, as a portal into the shocking world of Nazi barbarism and looting.”
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