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Nuit et brouillard = Night and fog / une co-production Como Films, Argos Films, Cocinor [and] Janus Films ; producers, Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Philippe Lifchitz ; texte, Jean Cayrol ; réalisation, Alain Resnais.
LIBRA DVD 001 438
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Cayrol, Jean, author.
- Michel, Henri, 1907-1986, author.
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 197.
- The Criterion collection ; 197
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- Majdanek (Concentration camp).
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Internment camps.
- Nazi concentration camps--Germany.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Internment camps--Germany.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (31 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Night and fog
- Title on container: Alain Resnais' Night and fog
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
- Language Note:
- French soundtrack; English subtitles.
- Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Michel Bouquet.
- Credits:
- Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Viernet; music, Hanns Eisler.
- Notes:
- Based on the book Tragédie de la déportation, 1940-1945 / by Olga Wormser and Henri Michel.
- Special features: excerpt from interview with Alan Resnais; optional isolated music track; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate; essay about composer Hanns Eisler by Russell Lack; crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie.
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 1955.
- ISBN:
- 0780026942
- OCLC:
- 56425970
- Publisher Number:
- 037429180822
- NIG110 Criterion Collection
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