Night and Fog
Director Alain Resnais
Countries France
Duration 32 min
Synopsis
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Nuit et Brouillard contrasts the stillness of the quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, and presents the suggestion that such horrors could come again.
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Nuit et Brouillard contrasts the stillness of the quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, and presents the suggestion that such horrors could come again.