Night and Fog
- Original title
- Nuit et Brouillard
- Year
- 1956
- Running time
- 32 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Historical Documentaries. Holocaust. Nazism. Half-length Film
- Synopsis
- This lyrical and graphic documentary--one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust's horror--has deeply affected film's treatment of the Holocaust ever since, including Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Documentarian Alain Resnais contrasts 1955 footage of abandoned concentration camps' quiet, empty buildings with black-and-white footage shot there in 1944; the film's overwhelming resonance comes in its allowing the haunting images to stand on their own: a grainy, back-lit hill of human hair--long, women's hair; a pyramid of shoes.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1956: Award Jean Vigo: Top Prize of French Academy1961: BAFTA: Nominated for UN Award
- Critics' reviews
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"Only half an hour long, this is the greatest film ever made about the concentration camps."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 29 My Favorite Documentaries (164)
- 65 My Favorite Short Films (fiction) (20)
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