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Night and fog = Nuit et brouillard Cover Image DVD DVD

Night and fog = Nuit et brouillard / une co-production Como Films, Argos Films, Cocinor and Janus Films ; producers, Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Philippe Lifchitz ; text writer, Jean Cayrol ; director, Alain Resnais.

Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014 (Added Author). Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998 (Added Author). Halfon, Samy. (Added Author). Lifchitz, Philippe. (Added Author). Cayrol, Jean. (Added Author). Cloquet, Ghislain. (Added Author). Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001 (Added Author). Bouquet, Michel. (Added Author). Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962 (Added Author). Muszka, Edouard. (Added Author). Como Films. (Added Author). Argos Films. (Added Author). Cocinor (Firm) (Added Author). Janus Films. (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary:

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

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  • ISBN: 0780026942
  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (31 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
Special features : crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie ; optional isolated music track ; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate ; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from "Les Etoiles du cinema (1994) ; information about the composer, Hanns Eisler, by Russell Lack.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Vierny ; narrator, Michel Bouquet ; music, Hanns Eisler ; production designer, Edouard Muszka ; executive producers, Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital mono. ; aspect ratio 1.33:1.
Language Note:
French dialogue, English subtitles.
Awards Note:
Prix Jean Vigo, 1956: Best Short Film.

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Subject: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) > Buildings.
Majdanek (Concentration camp) > Buildings.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Internment camps > Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps.
Nazi concentration camps > Europe.
Genre: Short films.
Foreign films > France.
Documentary films.
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