Night and Fog (1959)
Night and Fog (1959)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Michel Bouquet
Narrator
Reinhard Heydrich
Self
Heinrich Himmler
Self
Adolf Hitler
Self
Julius Streicher
Self
Chris Marker
Assistant Director / Script Editor
Alain Resnais
Director
Jean Cayrol
Writer
Anne Sarraute
Assistant Editor
Anatole Dauman
Producer
Georges Delerue
Orchestrator / Conductor
André Heinrich
Assistant Director
Samy Halfon
Producer
Philippe Lifchitz
Producer
Henri Colpi
Sound Recordist
Hanns Eisler
Composer
Henry Ferrand
Special Effects
Jean-Charles Lauthe
Assistant Director
Ghislain Cloquet
Cinematographer
Jacqueline Chasney
Sound Recordist
Sacha Vierny
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 27, 1959
Original NameNuit et Brouillard
StatusReleased
Running Time32m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard) is a 1956 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, 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".