Nuit et brouillard [videorecording] = Night and fog / 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.


[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003], c1955.
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Part of the series Criterion collection 197;Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) 197.
Notes:

  • DVD Region 1 Dolby digital.
  • In French optional subtitles in English.
  • Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Vierny narrator, Michel Bouquet music, Hanns Eisler production designer, Edouard Muszka executive producers, Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi.
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
  • MPAA rating: Not rated.
  • 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.
  • Special features : crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie optional isolated music track new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from Les Etoiles du cinema (1994) information about the composer, Hanns Eisler, by Russell Lack.

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Requested by deVries, J;Wittenbreer, B

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