The Portraitist

Year: 2006

Runtime: 52 mins

Language: Polish

Director: Irek Dobrowolski

Documentary

The film follows Wilhelm Brasse, a pre‑war portrait photographer from Katowice who becomes the Gestapo’s recorder in a concentration camp. His passion for photography, once celebrated for elegant portraits, becomes a curse and a salvation as he creates thousands of images that chronicle the camp’s existence from opening to evacuation.

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