Narrator, Michel Bouquet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Full screen 1.37:1 aspect ratio. Restored in 2015 by Éclair Groupe and L.E. Diapason. Essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe in container. Special features: New 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed moraural soundtrack; Excerpt from a 1994 audio interview with director Alain Resnais; New interview with film maker; Face aux fantomes, a 99 minute 2009 documentary featuring historian Sylvie Lindeperg that expores the French memory of the Holocaust and the controversy surrounding the film's released; New English subtitle translation; Plus: essay.
Summary:
Filmed in 1955 at Auschwitz, Alain Resnais combines color footage with black and white newsreels and stills to tell the story of not just the Holocaust, but the horror of man's brutal inhumanity.
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