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Night and Fog is a documentary that alternates between past and present, using both black-and-white and colour footage. The first part of Night and Fog shows remnants of Auschwitz while the narrator Michel Bouquet describes the rise of Nazi ideology.
A 1955 French short film by Alain Resnais that depicts the horrors of Nazi Germany's death camps and the Final Solution. The film combines archival footage, newsreels, and stills to show the brutality and dehumanization of the Holocaust.
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- Documentary, Short, History
- Alain Resnais
- 1956-01
Oct 24, 2021 · Night and Fog is a French documentary directed by Alain Resnais which depicts the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in Europe.
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- 30 min
Jul 21, 2016 · Alain Resnais's 1955 documentary uses color and black-and-white footage to expose the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. Learn about the film's production, historical context, and restoration in this essay by Colin MacCabe.
Night and Fog. Still the most concise and powerful evocation of the memory of the Nazi concentration camps. TOP CRITIC. [It] fuses present-tense scenes and archival images, evoking the...
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- Documentary, War, History
- Alain Resnais
A 1955 documentary by Alain Resnais that explores the abandoned Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek. The film uses juxtaposition of images and sound to reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust and the possibility of recurrence.
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Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps with haunting wartime footage.
