Night and Fog

Night and Fog

  • Director: Alain Resnais
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French
  • Release date: January 1956
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Nacht und Nebel
  • "Night and Fog" is a war history documentary produced by the French company Argos Films and directed by The Sphinx .
    The film exposed the terrorist atrocities   in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and premiered in Berlin on July 1, 1956   .

    Details

    • Release date January 1956
    • Filming locations Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland
    • Production companies Argos Films

    Movie reviews

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    • By Idell 2022-08-01 16:09:54

      Night and Fog--About History of French Cinema

      The Left Bank documentary filmmakers challenged the idea of truth representation itself, and how to represent what we perceive as "truth". Based on my understanding, the lens of the Left Bank filmmakers functioned as a "kino-eye" that does not simply attempt to imitate how human eyes see things. Rather, by assembling film fragments together in a form of montage, filmmakers can...

    • By Branson 2022-04-19 09:02:37

      They're just corpses, not people

      1. When the camera swept over the place where the prisoners were sleeping, he said that they were hiding in the cave and eating with fear, and we are now in the pile of food, and we are afraid to eat!

      2. The stacking of corpses reminded me of the appalling shipments scattered in the warehouse by the courier company. When they were pushed into the blazing stove one by one, what came out was not the ashes, but the broken and scattered skeletons. Some still held up the unburnt hand and...

    • By Aimee 2022-04-19 09:02:37

      Notes on the way home

      After watching it, I left the study room and felt hot because I saw the immortal ice
      passing through the mirror in the bathroom. Something was wrong, and I didn't dare to look at the face that I felt very satisfied with during the day,
      but I just witnessed how the face of the person can become a bottomless black hole, How else do you manage to straighten your face?

      Fog all day so I choose tonight to see the night and the fog But when I go outside, there is no fog, only the...

    • By Catalina 2022-04-19 09:02:37

      incomprehensible

      I have never understood why these people, who are also human, can do such things to their fellow citizens. I vaguely remember that Hitler was discriminated against or insulted by his Jewish classmates when he was a child. In short, he was treated unfairly, so he would treat them like this in the future, but how could one person's will control so many officers and soldiers to do this willingly for him? Even if the military orders are like mountains, can you do things against your will? What's...

    • By Octavia 2022-03-26 09:01:10

      man is beast

      I have seen the most memorable Nazi film "The Pianist in the Field". The two scenes that I can't forget the most are that the Nazis went to search a Jewish family. The wheelchair and the old man fell from the balcony together. Second, in the concentration camp, an officer and a woman woke up early to test guns and aimed at Jews passing by in the distance. One or two, who were they? Humans are not even better than animals. They are not born and experienced suffering. Never say they are noble...

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    • By Maxie 2023-09-09 00:48:24

      Regarding all this, no matter how many times I see it, I can't keep calm. The dark side of human nature always has no limit. After reading the information, I learned that Renai's short documentary has changed the traditional mode of...

    • By Reginald 2023-06-26 17:08:29

      we pretend it all happened only once, at a given time and place. we turn a blind eye to what surrounds us and a deaf ear to humanity's never-ending...

    • By Christopher 2023-01-19 02:40:52

      Back to Auschwitz. The color film revisits the old places, the black and white materials list the monstrous crimes, the voice-over is paired with old and new images, and pictures alternately present the tragic situation of the concentration camps of the year. Think behind the scenes of this...

    • By Jordane 2022-11-05 13:47:55

      This is a film that must be watched but I dare not watch again. It is my nightmare to watch this film...

    • By Gerardo 2022-10-19 16:18:04

      The montage of the former Auschwitz concentration camp site and wartime images is...

    Movie plot

    In 1956, the director used a camera to lead the audience back to Auschwitz. The former site of the Nazi concentration camp was already a peaceful and beautiful wild scenery. However, back in time when the Nazis came to power in 1933, the entire city was shrouded in haze: large blocks of concentration camps were neatly lined up, and a large number of Jews were taken into the camps and began to receive inhuman torture and insults. Races...
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    Movie quotes

    • Récitant/Narrator: Somewhere in our midst, lucky kapos still survive, reinstated officers or anonymous informers. There are those who refused to believe or believed only for brief moments.

    • Récitant/Narrator: With our sincere gaze we survey these ruins, as if the old monster lay crushed forever beneath the rubble. We pretend to take up hope again as the image recedes into the past, as if we were cured once and for all of the scourge of the camps. We pretend it happened all at once, at a given time and place. We turn a blind eye to what surrounds us and a deaf ear to humanity's never-ending cry.

    • Récitant/Narrator: 1933 - The machine gets under way. The nation must all sing the same song, with no wrong notes.