Night and Fog

A Short film of

Alain Resnais

Produced by

Argos Films

Production year1954

Synopsis

Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard) is a 1955 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek while describing the lives of prisoners in the camps. Night and Fog was made in collaboration with scriptwriter Jean Cayrol, a survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. The music of the soundtrack was composed by Hanns Eisler.

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Credits

Director (1)

Alain Resnais
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Production and distribution (2)

Executive Producer : Argos Films

Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution

Full credits (7)

Executive Producer : Anatole Dauman

Screenwriter : Jean Cayrol

Voice-over : Michel Bouquet

Directors of Photography : Sacha Vierny, Ghislain Cloquet

Editor : Alain Resnais

Narration Writer : Jean Cayrol

Music Composer : Hanns Eisler

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Type : Short film
Genres : Documentary
Themes : History
Production language : French
Production country : France
Original French-language productions : Unspecified
Nationality : 100% French (France)
Production year : 1954
Runtime : 31 min
Visa number : 17.005
Production formats : 35mm
Color type : Black & White
Aspect ratio : 1.33
Audio format : Mono

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News & awards

Selections (3)

Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Czech Republic, 2022
Notes on War
Curtacinema
Brazil, 2012
Program dedicated to Alain Resnais
Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Sweden, 2011
30th Anniversary Program

Awards (1)

Prix Jean Vigo
France, 1956
Jean Vigo Award : Alain Resnais

About

Resnais was originally hesitant about making the film and refused the offer to make it until Cayrol was contracted to write the script. The film was shot entirely in the year 1955 and is composed of contemporary shots of the camps and stock footage. Resnais and Cayrol found the film very difficult to make due to its graphic nature and subject matter. The film faced difficulties with French censors unhappy with a shot of a French police officer in the film, and with the German embassy in France, which attempted to halt the film's release at the Cannes Film Festival. Night and Fog was released to very positive acclaim and still receives very high praise today. It was then re-shown in 1990, to remind the people of the 'horrors of war'.

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