Night and fog Nuit et brouillard
Title:
Night and fog Nuit et brouillard
Author:
Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998.
ISBN:
9780780026940
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 197
General Note:
Based on the book Tragedie de la deportation by Olga Wormeser and Henri Michel.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
Special features include: new high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from Les Etoiles du cinema (1994); optional isolated music track; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate; essay about composer Hanns Eisler by Russell Lack; crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie; new and improved English subtitle translation.
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, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
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