Nuit et brouillard = Night and fog /

Nuit et brouillard = Night and fog /

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Imprint:[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003], c1955.
Description:1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:French
Series:Criterion collection ; 197
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 197.
Subject:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Buildings -- Drama.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Drama.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama.
Concentration camps -- Europe.
Buildings.
Concentration camps.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures.
Europe.
Documentary videos.
Documentary films.
Short films.
Format: DVD Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6201608
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Night and fog
Title on container: Alain Resnais' Night and fog
Other authors / contributors:Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998
Halfon, Samy.
Lifchitz, Philippe.
Cayrol, Jean.
Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014
Cloquet, Ghislain.
Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001
Bouquet, Michel.
Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962.
Muszka, Edouard.
Como Films.
Argos Films.
Cocinor (Firm)
Janus Films.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN:0780026942
Notes: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.
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby digital mono.
French dialogue, English subtitles.
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.
Target Audience:MPAA rating: Not rated.
Standard no.:037429180822
Publisher's no.:NIG110 Criterion Collection
Review by Library Journal Review

A decade after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated, French New Wave pioneer Alain Renais (Hiroshima Mon Amour; Last Year at Marienbad) captured the desolate killing grounds, contrasting them with wartime footage of genocidal atrocities. Using a carefully measured voice-over with music intended to avoid the typical emotional response, Renais encourages a thoughtful consideration of the Holocaust, with time and memory presaging themes the director would revisit in his subsequent dramatic features. A succinct documentary not lacking for impact. [See Trailers, LJ 6/1/16] © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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