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8.6/10   4,666 votes
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Director:
Alain Resnais
Writer:
Jean Cayrol (writer)
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Release Date:
21 October 1960 (Finland) more
Plot:
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
A masterpiece as only the French could make more (59 total)

Cast

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Michel Bouquet ... Récitant / Narrator (uncredited)
Reinhard Heydrich ... Himself (behind Hitler) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Heinrich Himmler ... Himself (with Hitler) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler ... Himself (views parade) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julius Streicher ... Himself (makes speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Directed by
Alain Resnais 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Jean Cayrol  writer
Chris Marker  uncredited

Produced by
Anatole Dauman .... producer
Samy Halfon .... producer
Philippe Lifchitz .... producer
 
Original Music by
Hanns Eisler 
 
Cinematography by
Ghislain Cloquet 
Sacha Vierny 
 
Film Editing by
Alain Resnais (uncredited)
 
Production Management
Édouard Muszka .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
André Heinreich .... assistant director
Jean-Charles Lauthe .... assistant director
Chris Marker .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Jacqueline Chasney .... sound recordist
Henri Colpi .... sound recordist
 
Special Effects by
Henry Ferrand .... special effects
 
Editorial Department
Anne Sarraute .... assistant editor
 
Music Department
Georges Delerue .... orchestrator
 
Other crew
Henri Michel .... historical consultant
Olga Wormser .... historical consultant
Alexander Alan .... text: English version (uncredited)
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Night and Fog
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Runtime:
32 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Argos Films more

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Trivia:
Jean Cayrol found the project immensely distressing to work on, given the fact that he had been a concentration camp inmate. How he got round it was not to provide text, segment by segment, to Resnais who would normally have edited the images around it. Instead, Cayrol wrote an initial text based on his recollections of Resnais' first cut. Resnais' assistant Chris Marker then reordered the script to match the sequence of shots and returned the restructured script to Cayrol who then rewrote the script. more
Quotes:
Récitant/Narrator: Those of us who pretend to believe that all this happened at a certain time and in a certain place, and those who refuse to see, who do not hear the cry to the end of time. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Grey Zone (2001) more

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19 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
A masterpiece as only the French could make, 9 May 2002
9/10
Author: Agent10 from Tucson, AZ

This movie is the greatest Holocaust film ever, and few will ever deny this fact. Beautiful and intense, its makes the stomach turn when one sees the footage and pictures obtained in this film. I've never seen footage this brutal in my entire life, not even in a movie. The voice-overs seem odd at place, but it is really the voice of history, speaking of unspeakable horrors which are captured almost perfectly in this film. A dark tribute to those who lost their lives in the concentration camps. This should be used as a teaching tool for tolerance and the atrocities of World War II.

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