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Nuit et brouillard = Night and fog

Author: Anatole DaumanSamy HalfonPhilippe LifchitzJean CayrolAlain ResnaisAll authors
Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003], ©1955.
Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs), 197.
Edition/Format:   DVD video : FrenchView all editions and formats
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 and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
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Genre/Form: Foreign language films
Documentary films
Historical films
Short films
Nonfiction films
Material Type: Videorecording, Internet resource
Document Type: Visual material, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Anatole Dauman; Samy Halfon; Philippe Lifchitz; Jean Cayrol; Alain Resnais; Ghislain Cloquet; Sacha Vierny; Michel Bouquet; Hanns Eisler; Edouard Muszka; Como Films.; Argos Films.; Cocinor (Firm); Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN: 0780026942 9780780026940
OCLC Number: 52479939
Language Note: French dialogue, English subtitles ; leaflet in English.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
Special features : crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie ; optional isolated music track ; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from "Les Etoiles du cinema (1994). In accompanying leaflet: information about the composer, Hanns Eisler, by Russell Lack ; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate.
Credits: Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Vierny ; narrator, Michel Bouquet ; music, Hanns Eisler ; production designer, Edouard Muszka ; executive producers, Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi ; historical consultants, Olga Wormser, Henri Michel.
Cast: Narrator, Michel Bouquet.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: Not rated.
Description: 1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded leaf.
Details: DVD ; region 1 ; full screen presentation, 1.33:1 ; Dolby 5.1; Dolby digital mono ; high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound.
Contents: Credits --
Building the camps --
"Another planet" --
"Man is resilient" --
Extermination --
"Who is responsible?" --
Color bars.
Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs), 197.
Other Titles: Nuit et brouillard (Motion picture)
Night and fog
Alain Resnais' Night and fog
Responsibility: 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.

Abstract:

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 and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

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