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Night and Fog

Original title: Nuit et brouillard
  • 1956
  • TV-14
  • 32m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
23K
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Night and Fog (1956)
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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.

  • Director
    • Alain Resnais
  • Writer
    • Jean Cayrol
  • Stars
    • Michel Bouquet
    • Reinhard Heydrich
    • Heinrich Himmler
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.6/10
    23K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alain Resnais
    • Writer
      • Jean Cayrol
    • Stars
      • Michel Bouquet
      • Reinhard Heydrich
      • Heinrich Himmler
    • 107User reviews
    • 77Critic reviews
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  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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

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    10/10

    The Most Powerful Film Ever Made

    If you want to describe or give your audience a feeling for the holocaust, or "Man's Inhumanity To Man", then this is the vehicle to use..Show it..be warned, it is so powerful, that you will never forget what you see, neither will any of your viewers..It is impossible to describe, intermixing l955 footage of Auchwitz Concentration Camp, with captured Nazi footage which the allies found at the end of the war, and the scenes of American and British troops liberating the camps...In French, with English subtitles.. and scenes that are unforgettable and horrific. Even the sad music of death from this film plays in my ears, and I have not seen it in 15 years. Once you hear it, you will know.

    This is the one to show if you want people to understand the truth of what happened and the reason for its reaction in today's current events....It is shocking in a special way. I showed it to my classes. Students were warned, and told what was coming, they said it would be "nothing" By the end some were crying and moaning in horror...
    • stuartpiles
    • Nov 15, 2004
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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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    • Runtime
      32 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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