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Night and Fog
a.k.a. Nuit et Brouillard Director: Alain Resnais

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  • DVD Release Date: 06/24/2003
  • Original Release: 1955
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 150

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Features

New high-defintion digital transfer, with restored image and sound; Excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from Les Étoiles du Cinéma (1994); Optional isolated music track; New essay about the film by Phillip Lopate; Essay about composer Hanns Eisler by Russell Lack; Crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie; New and improved English subtitle translation

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Credits [1:36]
2. Building the Camps [6:19]
3. "Another Planet" [7:58]
4. "Man Is Resilient" [4:01]
5. Extermination [8:39]
6. "Who Is Responsible?" [3:15]

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Night and Fog represents the peak of director Alain Resnais' activities as a short-subject filmmaker. Framed as a documentary, the film is an unsettling view of life inside the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. As he would in his later features (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad et. al.) Resnais toys with chronology, with memory becoming present reality and vice versa at several critical junctures. Jean Cayrol, later responsible for the script of Resnais' Muriel (1962), wrote the narration for Night and Fog. The film was originally released in France as Nuit et Brouillard. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Night and Fog--video on the Holocaustby Anonymous

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November 15, 2009: I teach high school English, and this video is the perfect compliment to any unit on the Holocaust. It is a breath-taking work that is the perfect mix of art and truth. The short video walks you through the shocking footage and information telling you the story of the death camps piece by piece, in just the right speed, so you are able to handle all the grim realities without being systematically overloaded. A poignant piece that really is educational and informative. The music provides the perfect background. Do not let the French narration intimidate you, the subtitles are great.

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Unspeakable Spokenby Anonymous

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February 16, 2006: One of my two favorite films, Nuit et brouillard speaks the unspeakable. It recalls me as a child seeing for the first time those images that could not be what they were but were what they were. With commentary in French, the least mystical of languages, color footage of decaying camps mixed with those impossible realities haunt consciousness. Nothing could be or is the same. One has to put the film into historical context. One has to explore the history, but the images make the history eternally immediate. I contrast this brief documentary with Marcel Ophuls' somewhat dissimilar five-hour documentary Memory of Justice. One leaves the later film cleansed one can never leave the former without the taste of dust and ashes that linger forever on the palette. Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast is the other of my two favorite films. Somehow, it makes sense to me to pair them. I do not understand why.This is a film that transcends the easy nonsense of too much criticism.