DVD : Night and Fog - Criterion Collection
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780026940
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780026942
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Running Time: 32 minutes
Sales Rank: 9558
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
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Description:
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man's violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again.
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Though only a short subject, this groundbreaking documentary remains one of the most influential and powerful explorations of the Holocaust ever made. Director Alain Resnais bluntly presents an indictment not only of the Nazis but of the world community, and the film is all the more remarkable for its harsh judgment considering the time in which it was made, less than a decade after the end of the war, when questions of responsibility were not yet being addressed. Juxtaposing archival clips from the concentration camps across Germany and Poland with the present-day denials of the camps' existence, the film seeks to once and for all expose the horrifying truth of the Final Solution, as well as to address the continuing anti-Semitism and bigotry that existed long after the war's end. An invaluable resource and testament to history, this film was a profound influence on all films to address issues of the Holocaust, from Judgment at Nuremberg and Shoah to Schindler's List. Night and Fog remains an essential and indispensable document of the 20th century. --Robert Lane
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This is a very important film!
However,If you do not understand rapid speaking French you better be a SUPER speed reader of extremly poor quality(English)subtitles which GREATLY distracts from the importance of this film.
Ideally, this extremly important and visual film told in less than an hour should have been dubbed in all languages,it is that important of a film.
J. Levin
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As an assistant professor of military history at the Air Force Academy, our department made this film part of the mandatory curriculum for the cadets in the late 60's and early 70's. I had never seen it, but after viewing it several times with my classes, it was forever etched in my mind. Some of the cadets way back then did not believe it had actually happened. Some of my fellow instructors heard the same disbelief.
The entire tragedy was based on many kinds of prejudice, including religious, physical and mental disabilities, ethnicity, and pure greed. The world, including the United States, has no shortage of such prejudices now, and they are escalating in the culture wars now raging across the world.
It should be taught in high school and college history today--consistently. As Rudyard Kipling said, "...Lest we forget, lest we forget." We must not let it happen again!
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The half hour run time was rather disappointing. They should however have an English voice over. It's kinda hard to watch piles of emaciated dead bodies being pushed into a mass grave while reading the subtitles. The music was really too upbeat in my opinion for what you're watching. The director seemed more like he was wanting to shock people instead of giving information on the Holocaust.
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"Night and Fog"
A Vivid and Horrible Description of Horror
Amos Lassen
Filmed in 1955, "Night and Fog" ("Nuit et Brouillard") is the strongest film I have ever seen and it is only 31 minutes long. It shows the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in Poland through footage that was shot by the Allies as it tells the story not only of the camps but of the horror of man's inhumanity. It is like watching a travelogue of Hell and nothing can prepare you for what you see here. So why watch it? It is important and it has to be see if for no other reason than to show what can happen when an "inhuman world view is fused to state-of-the art technology.
What the Holocaust was it seems was no more (would we need any more?) simple mass-murder. It was a business decision which was calculated to rid the world of innocent people while making a profit off of them both in life and death.
We see piles of human hair, emaciated skeletons being pushed around by bulldozers, lampshades made of human skin and what looks like living corpses walking around. These are visions you can never forget and they will never leave you. The shock value is compounded by opera and classical background music.
Francois Truffaut, the outstanding French director, has called "Night and Fog" the greatest film of all time. It is Alain Renais, the director of the film, who shows us the Holocaust is all of its horror. It is devastating to watch so it is best to warn ... Read More
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Anyone who has not seen actual footage of Auschwitz and victims of the Holocaust should see this film.
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