Nuit et brouillard (1955)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.7/10   

Director:

Alain Resnais

Guionista:

Jean Cayrol (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 octubre 1960 (Finland)

Género:

Documental | Corto | Historia | Guerra

Plot:

One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland...

Plot Keywords:

Concentration Camp | Poland | Holocaust | WWII | Auschwitz

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Devastating in its impact

Reparto

Michel Bouquet	...	Récitant / Narrator (uncredited)
Reinhard Heydrich	...	Himself (behind Hitler) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Heinrich Himmler	...	Himself (with Hitler) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (views parade) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julius Streicher	...	Himself (makes speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)

También conocida como:

Night and Fog
Noche y niebla (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

32 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Brazil:18 | Iceland:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | UK:15

Compañía:

Argos Films

Trivialidades:

One of the first documentaries to openly deal with the Holocaust.

Citas:

Récitant/Narrator: Those of us who pretend to believe that all this happened at a certain time and in a certain place, and those who refuse to see, who do not hear the cry to the end of time.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Grey Zone (2001)

Devastating in its impact

Called the "greatest film of all time" by director Francois Truffaut, the documentary Night and Fog by Alain Resnais shows the holocaust tragedy in all its horror. Though only thirty minutes in length, the film is devastating in its impact, so approach with caution. Night and Fog refers to the arrival of prisoners in Auschwitz under the cover of darkness and also the ultimate failure of the Nazis at Nuremberg to take responsibility for it. Written by Jean Cayrol, a holocaust survivor, and poetically narrated by Michel Bouquet, its gruesome images seem like a surreal nightmare.

The film opens in 1955 with an image of a barren field of grass with lush romantic music in the background. The scene then abruptly shifts to wartime. We are in Auschwitz and the prisoners are arriving. We are shown scenes shot after liberation that are so shocking that they have never been made public outside of this film. Resnais does not spare us: the hair shaved off the heads of women piled high on the floor, bodies -- men -women - children -- are tossed in a garbage pit like so much rubbish, their fat used to make soap. The film only lasts a short time, but the images remain indelible. Unwillingness to acknowledge responsibility is depicted in brief scenes of the Nuremberg Trials. As we witness the conscious distortion of the past still going on today, we are left numb.