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Night and fog [videorecording] / une co-production Como Films, Argos Films, Cocinor and Janus Films ;producers, Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Philippe Lifchitz ; text writer, Jean Cayrol ; director, Alain Resnais.

Contributor(s): Language: French Summary language: English Original language: French Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 197Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2003.Description: 1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • TItle on container: Alain Resnais' Night and fog
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 NIG 2003
Summary: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
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Media Resources Taylor's Library-TU 791.4372 NIG 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DVD 1 Available SLASx,05000,01,GR 1000525434

Based on the book Tragedie de la deportation by Olga Wormeser and Henri Michel.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.

Special features include: new high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from Les Etoiles du cinéma (1994); optional isolated music track; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate; essay about composer Hanns Eisler by Russell Lack; crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie; new and improved English subtitle translation.

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

French dialogue, English subtitles.

DVD; Dolby Digital mono; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.

In French; with optional English subtitles.