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Night and fog [videorecording] = Nuit et brouillard / une co-production Como Films, Argos Films, Cocinor and Janus Films ; producers, Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Philippe Lifchitz ; text writer, Jean Cayrol ; director, Alain Resnais.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: NIG110 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Summary language: English Original language: French Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 197.Publication details: [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003], c1955.Description: 1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0780026942 :
Other title:
  • Nuit et brouillard [videorecording]
  • Title on container: Alain Resnais' Night and fog
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D805.G3 N84 2003
Production credits:
  • Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Vierny ; narrator, Michel Bouquet ; music, Hanns Eisler ; production designer, Edouard Muszka ; executive producers, Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi.
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 and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
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Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Barcode
DVDs DVDs American University in Dubai American University in Dubai AUDIO & DVD Collection DVD D 805 .G3 N84 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Copy Type:33 - DVD Available 604390

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.

Special features : crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie ; optional isolated music track ; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate ; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from "Les Etoiles du cinema (1994) ; information about the composer, Hanns Eisler, by Russell Lack.

Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Vierny ; narrator, Michel Bouquet ; music, Hanns Eisler ; production designer, Edouard Muszka ; executive producers, Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi.

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 and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital mono. ; aspect ratio 1.33:1.

French dialogue, English subtitles.

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