Night and fog [videorecording] = 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.
Format:
[videorecording] =
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2003
Description:
1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the book Tragedie de la deportation by Olga Wormeser and Henri Michel. Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Special features include: new high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from Les Etoiles du cineĢma (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.
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, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.