Night and fog = Nuit et brouillard / a co-production from Como Films, Argos Films, Cocinor and Janus Films ; producers, Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Philippe Lifchitz ; text writer, Jean Cayrol ; director, Alain Resnais.
Edition:
DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (32 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Mono, full screen 1.37:1. Essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe in container. Features: excerpt from a 1994 audio interview with director Alain Resnais; new interview with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer; Face aux fantômes (2009, 99 min.) documentary featuring historian Sylvie Lindeperg that explores the French memory of the Holocaust and the controversy surrounding the film's release; new English subtitle translation. Narrator: Michel Bouquet.
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.
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