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Night and Fog

Night and Fog

Nuit et brouillard

Alain Resnais


  • Country: France
  • Year: 1955
  • Language: French
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  • Runtime: 31 min.

Powerful and still controversial, Alain Resnais' chilling yet poetic documentary portrait of the Nazi death camps ten years after their liberation shifts between archival and contemporary footage of the infamous sites, their unnerving serenity in the present contrasted with quiet horror to archival images of freight cars arriving with their human cargo, underground "showers," and mountains of shoes now without owners.

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screening times

    • Saturday October 16
    • 3:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Thursday November 11
    • 12:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

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Powerful and still controversial, Alain Resnais' chilling yet poetic documentary portrait of the Nazi death camps ten years after their liberation shifts between archival and contemporary footage of the infamous sites, their unnerving serenity in the present contrasted with quiet horror to archival images of freight cars arriving with their human cargo, underground "showers," and mountains of shoes now without owners. Overlaid by a lyrical narration written by the novelist Jean Cayrol (himself a survivor of the Gusen concentration camp) and a score by Bertolt Brecht's musical collaborator Hanns Eisler, Night and Fog is one of the cinema's most profound and important works on memory, forgetting and moral reckoning.

Thanks to Sarah Finklea and Fumiko Takagi, Janus Films.

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