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NIGHT AND FOG
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Director: Alain ResnaisFormat: PAL
Language: French
Region: 4
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: M
DVD Release Date: 02/08/2008
Run Time: 32MIN
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Special features
- Exclusive audio commentary by Mark Baker, Associate Professor, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
- Message for Humanity - a documentary by Berry Lieberman - 15min
Synopsis
"For a few hours, Nuit et Brouillard wipes out the memory of all other films. It absolutely must be seen." Francois Truffaut
Francois Truffaut called it "the greatest film of all time", and more than 50 years later, Alan Resnais' (Hiroshima Mon Amour) unforgettable document of the Nazi concentration camps remains a devastating reocrd of man's inhumanity to man. Filmed only ten years after the horrific unfolding of Hitler's 'final solution', Resnais blends colour images of the strangely still, abandoned concentration camp at Auschwitz with black and white newsreel footage of the atrocities that occurred there, creating a diabolic image of political and ideological pwoer, and the untold human suffering that it unleashed. Namesake for Hitler's Nacht und Nebel decree in which political prisoners across Europe were kidnapped in the night and removed to german death camps, Night and Fog remains the definitive cinematic statement on the horrors of the Holocaust.
Francois Truffaut called it "the greatest film of all time", and more than 50 years later, Alan Resnais' (Hiroshima Mon Amour) unforgettable document of the Nazi concentration camps remains a devastating reocrd of man's inhumanity to man. Filmed only ten years after the horrific unfolding of Hitler's 'final solution', Resnais blends colour images of the strangely still, abandoned concentration camp at Auschwitz with black and white newsreel footage of the atrocities that occurred there, creating a diabolic image of political and ideological pwoer, and the untold human suffering that it unleashed. Namesake for Hitler's Nacht und Nebel decree in which political prisoners across Europe were kidnapped in the night and removed to german death camps, Night and Fog remains the definitive cinematic statement on the horrors of the Holocaust.
