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Night and Fog
Nuit et brouillard
Synopsis
The horrors of the Holocaust shown in black and white, through documents, films and photographs found in German, Polish and French archives. The footage of the now-empty camps, filmed only ten years after the liberation and shot in colour, shows what remains of Auschwitz.
Our take
Just a decade after the liberation of France, and the end of World War II, Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour) made Night and Fog: the most acclaimed of his documentary shorts. An immensely powerful, stark and startling film that dauntlessly depicts the many atrocities and horrors of the Holocaust.
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Awards & Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival
1956
1990
BAFTA Awards
1961 | Nominee: UN Award
Cinemasparagus
Resnais’ picture certainly established a standard point of perspective — the retrospective reckoning — that would be adopted and focused further not only in the filmmaker’s subsequent work but in that of Lanzmann, Marker, Godard, Akerman, and others. A method of forensic-science: train the camera, magnify the evidence. Observe the brilliant opening shot upon docile pasture, as the camera cranes down like the very Geist or omniscient prodigy only to reveal barbed wire fences in parallax relation.
Craig Keller
February 06, 2017
In February 1956, Truffaut wrote in Cahiers du cinéma of “the most noble and necessary film ever made.” It was only thirty minutes long, featured no stars, and was directed by a young film editor whose name was little known outside the intellectual circles of the Left Bank of Paris. Sixty years later, that work, Night and Fog, is generally acknowledged as one of the great classics of cinema, and its restoration now allows us to appreciate fully this remarkable encounter between film and history.
Colin MacCabe
July 21, 2016
Rather than proffering a thesis about the events, as one might expect from a more conventional documentary, Resnais and Cayrol test the limits of cinema’s capacity for response to both tragedy and misery by contesting the aesthetic norms of dealing with taboo subject matter.
Clayton Dillard
July 17, 2016
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