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Night and Fog

Original title: Nuit et brouillard
  • 19561956
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 32m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
19K
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Night and Fog (1956)
  • Documentary
  • Short
  • History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
19K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Alain Resnais
  • Writer
    • Jean Cayrol(commentary)
  • Stars
    • Michel Bouquet(voice)
    • Reinhard Heydrich(archive footage)
    • Heinrich Himmler(archive footage)
Top credits
  • Director
    • Alain Resnais
  • Writer
    • Jean Cayrol(commentary)
  • Stars
    • Michel Bouquet(voice)
    • Reinhard Heydrich(archive footage)
    • Heinrich Himmler(archive footage)
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    • 102User reviews
    • 69Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Michel Bouquet
    Michel Bouquet
    • Narratoras Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Reinhard Heydrich
    Reinhard Heydrich
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Heinrich Himmler
    Heinrich Himmler
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Julius Streicher
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Alain Resnais
    • Writer
      • Jean Cayrol(commentary)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      In the DVD re-release, there is a subtle but controversial difference in one of the still photographs of a Nazi concentration camp in southern France. In this version the distinctive profile of a French gendarme can be seen at one of the camps, implying that the French Vichy government of the time was aware of and perhaps involved in the management of the camps. This same photograph appears in the original version but the gendarme's profile was obscured at the insistence of the French government (who commissioned the film) when the film was in post-production.
    • Goofs
      In the film a popular myth about the Third Reich is presented as fact: The claim that the body fat of prisoners in extermination camps was used to produce soap. Though evidence does exist of small-scale soap production, possibly experimental, in the camp at Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig/Gdansk, mainstream scholars of the Holocaust consider the idea that the Nazis manufactured soap on an industrial scale to be part of World War II folklore.
    • Quotes

      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.

    • Alternate versions
      Before its original release, there was a still of a French gendarme (policeman) watching a roundup at Pithiviers. He is easily recognizable by the characteristic French "kepi." Wanting to deny complicity, French censors insisted this shot not be allowed, so for its original release, the image was altered so that a wooden beam covered the gendarme and his kepi. In 1997 or 98, the original version of the film was re-released in France, finally revealing the gendarme. The original American release of the film did not translate all the dialogue for the subtitles, in particular leaving out one of the two references to Jews: "Annette, from Bordeaux." Subsequent releases restored the original text: "Annette, a Jew from Bordeaux."
    • Connections
      Edited from Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945)

    User reviews102

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    Top review
    10/10
    To the point- absolutely affecting documentary
    Alain Resnais' overwhelming short piece on the horrors of the holocaust pretty much had me shaking by the end of the film. All of the footage- even the color footage viewing into the emptiness of the camps- brings the audience to feel a mass of emotions. More than anything, however, the narration is what hits the nail on the head. While it's only half an hour long, rather brief compared to it's dramatized contemporaries like Schindler's List and The Pianist, or the massive documentaries like Sorrow and the Pity or Shoa, I'd think that it should be required viewing for any mature minded person (not for children, it's too disturbing from my perspective) interested in truly comprehending what was really going on in those god-awful years in Europe. A+
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    • Nov 20, 2003

    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 1956 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Nacht und Nebel
    • Filming locations
      • Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland
    • Production company
      • Argos Films
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      32 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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