Nuit et Bruillard

original title:
Nuit et Bruillard
other titles:
Night and Fog, (Nacht und Nebel)
country / year of production:
France / 1955
original length:
32 min. , black/white
premiere:
D: December 1956
genre:
Documentary
based on:
director:
Alain Resnais
film script:
Jean Cayrol
producer:
Anatole Dauman , Samy Halfon , Philippe Lifchitz
cinematographer:
Ghislain Cloquet , Sacha Vierny
editor:
Alain Resnais
composer:
Hanns Eisler
cast (role):
more:
Michel Bouquet
plot synopsis:
Documentary on life in the German concentrationcamps. Resnais filmed Auschwitz in 1955 and constrasted these shots with scenes from newsreels of the 1930's and 1940's.
keywords:
concentration camps , short / one-reeler , Holocaust , massacre , propaganda , media
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
J.W. Moses. "Vision denied in Night and fog and Hiroshima mon amour." Literature/Film Quarterly 15 (1987), 3, 159-163.
remarks:
availability:
VHS, DVD