Nuit et brouillard [videorecording] = Night and fog / 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.

Title on container: Alain Resnais' Night and fog

0780026942

[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003], c1955.

French

French dialogue, English subtitles.

1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

037429180822

D805.G3 N84 2003

940.53/17

NIG110 Criterion Collection

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.

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.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby digital mono.

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 197.

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