

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

Director
Alain Resnais
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The French government tried to block its Cannes premiere, fearing German backlash during Cold War reconciliation.
Resnais made this the same year he began Hiroshima mon amour, forming his obsession with memory's unreliability.
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