Night and fog [dvd] = 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.
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. 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 and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
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