"Night and Fog" by Alain Resnais – A Vivid Depiction of Nazi Concentration Camps
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Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing the stillness of the abandoned camps’ empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, Resnais investigates humanity’s capacity for violence, and presents the devastating suggestion that such horrors could occur again. (Criterion)
Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of man's brutal inhumanity. (IMDB)
Called "the greatest film ever" by François Truffaut.
You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/tij8A83EnqU
Please watch in advance. (32 minutes long)
The title of the movie is taken from the Nacht und Nebel (German for "Night and Fog") program of abductions and disappearances targeting political activists and resistance "helpers" in the territories occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. Victims who disappeared in these clandestine actions were never heard from again. (Wikipedia)
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