- 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.
- Variant Title
- Night and fog
Alain Resnais' Night and fog
- Series
- Criterion collection ; 197
Criterion collection ; 197.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
©1955
- Locale
- Europe
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998.
Halfon, Samy.
Lifchitz, Philippe.
Cayrol, Jean.
Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014.
Cloquet, Ghislain.
Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.
Bouquet, Michel.
Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962.
Muszka, Edouard.
Como Films.
Argos Films.
Cocinor (Firm)
Janus Films.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Notes
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Based on the book Tragédie de la déportation, 1940-1945.
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.
Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Vierny ; narrator, Michel Bouquet ; music, Hanns Eisler ; production designer, Edouard Muszka ; executive producers, Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby digital mono.
French dialogue, English subtitles.
