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32 minutes that will haunt you forever. Resnais filmed Auschwitz in color before it was too late.
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Audience Score
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Night and Fog (1956)

unflinching testimonypoetic horrorarchival nightmare

Overview

DocumentaryHistory

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Flag of FRFRFrench
Content warning
short filmtortureworld war iinazigermanyauschwitz-birkenau concentration campprisoner of wardestruction of a civilization

Standout Aspects

Direction

Resnais tracks through abandoned camps in devastating color.

Writing

Jean Cayrol's narration: spare, poetic, refuses easy consolation.

Editing

Jarring cuts between 1956 peace and 1945 atrocity footage.

Best for:Solo: You need space to process. No small talk after this one.·Rewatch: Different eyes each time. The narration reveals layers.
Heads up:Disturbing: Unflinching Holocaust footage: corpses, medical experiments, mass graves.·Emotional: Final question lands like a gut punch about complicity.
Alain Resnais

Director

Alain Resnais

ReleasedMay 22, 1956
Runtime32m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady
Intensityhigh
Tonedark
Feelheavy
Argos films

Top Cast

Michel Bouquet

Michel Bouquet

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Julius Streicher

Julius Streicher

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Trivia

The French government tried to block its Cannes premiere, fearing German backlash during Cold War reconciliation.

Cultural

Resnais made this the same year he began Hiroshima mon amour, forming his obsession with memory's unreliability.

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