Night and Fog

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The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

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Summary

Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard)

Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard)

Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard) is a 1956 French documentary short film.

Directed by Alain Resnais, written by Jean Cayrol, stars Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The title is taken from the Nacht und Nebel (German for “Night and Fog”) program of abductions and disappearances decreed by Nazi Germany. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek established in occupied Poland while describing the lives of prisoners in the camps. Night and Fog was made in collaboration with scriptwriter Jean Cayrol, a survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. The music of the soundtrack was composed by Hanns Eisler.

Resnais was originally hesitant about making the film and refused the offer to make it until Cayrol was contracted to write the script. The film was shot entirely in the year 1955 and is composed of contemporary shots of the camps plus stock footage. Resnais and Cayrol found the film very difficult to make due to its graphic nature and subject matter. The film faced difficulties with French censors unhappy with a shot of a French police officer in the film, and with the German embassy in France, which attempted to halt the film’s release at the Cannes Film Festival. Night and Fog was released to critical acclaim, and still receives very high praise today. It was re-shown on French television nationwide in 1990 to remind the people of the “horrors of war”.



Plot

Night and Fog is a documentary that alternates between past and present, using both black-and-white and colour footage.

The first part of Night and Fog shows remnants of Auschwitz while the narrator Michel Bouquet describes the rise of Nazi ideology. The film continues with comparisons of the life of the Schutzstaffel to the starving prisoners in the camps. Bouquet shows sadism inflicted upon the doomed inmates, including scientific and medical experiments, executions, and rape. The next section is shown completely in black-and-white, and depicts images of gas chambers and piles of bodies. The final topic of the film depicts the liberation of the country, the discovery of the horror of the camps, and the questioning of who was responsible for them.



Also Known As

  • (original title): Nuit et brouillard
  • Argentina: Noche y niebla
  • Brazil: Noite e Neblina
  • Canada: Night and Fog(English)
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