France
1955
31 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
French
197
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps’ quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man’s violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again.
| Director | Alain Resnais |
| Producer | Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon and Philippe Lifchitz |
| Cinematography | Sacha Vierny and Ghislain Cloquet |
| Text | Jean Cayrol |
| Screenplay | Chris Marker |
| Historical consultants | Olga Wormser and Henri Michel |
| Music | Hanns Eisler |
François Truffaut once called Night and Fog “the greatest film ever made.” If you don’t believe me, here is the exact quote: “The effective war film is often the one in which the action begins after the war, when there is nothing but ruins and desolation everywhere . . .
It’s a tribute to the clarity and cogency of Night and Fog that Resnais’ masterpiece has not been diminished by time, or displaced by longer and more ambitious films on the Holocaust, such as Shoah and Schindler’s List.In 1954, Hachette published . . .
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