Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
The Photographer of Mauthausen
Scored from 31 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Francisco Boix is a Spanish Republican who fought in the Civil War, fled to France and was handed to the Germans, arriving at the Mauthausen camp in Austria as a political prisoner. Assigned to the camp's photographic service, he develops the SS's own images of the killings and cruelty committed there, and with a handful of fellow Spaniards begins stealing negatives and smuggling them past the guards so the pictures might one day serve as evidence. Every hidden exposure is a death sentence if the officer who runs the lab notices, and the scheme depends on prisoners working outside the wire who are willing to hide the film. Mar Targarona's Spanish-language drama, starring Mario Casas as Boix, is based on a true story.
The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres. It runs 1h 50m. It was made in Spain, in Spanish.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Only 31 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 31 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Photographer of Mauthausen lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2010s (13,059 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 31.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
