Night and Fog

“The effective war film is often the one in which the action begins after the war, when there is nothing but ruins and desolation everywhere…” Francois Truffaut Francois Truffaut continued on to say that Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog, made in 1955, was the “greatest film ever made”. The 30-minute film based on the horrors of the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps after World War II combines Resnais’ own cinematography with original images and footage of the captives in their unfathomable

In 1956, just a few years after the Holocaust came to an end, director Alain Resnais released the documentary Nuit Et Brouillard meaning Night and Fog. The film is presented in both color and black and white, and is narrated in French by Michael Bouquet. In the film, the abandoned grounds of Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Majdanek are pictured. As images of the camps are shown, the narrator describes one of the most devastating historical events in detail. Each element of the film come together

Night and Fog is a short French documentary released in 1956, directed by Alain Resnais. Night and Fog feature two-abandoned concentration camp grounds, Auschwitz, and Majdanek. The film is renowned as an artistic piece that captivates the complexity of trauma that “transformed the post-war documentary” to “dismantle the realist mode that offered a transparent, conclusive, and morally reassuring account of historical trauma” (Kennelly). Resnais technique to transition/changeover from black and white

Night and Fog I must say that this film is very traumatizing. There are some images in this film that will be burned and scarred into my mind for as long as I live. I have seen many holocaust films, but no one was as near as dramatic and depicting as Night and Fog. However I did like the theme of this movie. It is very sad but yet realistic. Our minds are murky and dull. We tend to only remember the important situation in our lives. Yet we don’t remember the importance of our own history

In history, from Cane and Abel time there have been numerous reasons why human beings have had to kill another human being; Land, Power, Money, and a huge number of different things millions. Regardless of brutality that has taken previously, the world was acquainted with an one-time act unlike to any other for mass murder. It was a period of hurt and hate, a period may might want to overlook, however the haunting pictures, stories, and memorabilia have and dependably will live on to help us to remember

In the poetic documentary Night and Fog, Alain Resnais uses images, sounds, music and narration to portray the message that humanity must learn from its past. The film begins with the landscape of what was once a concentration camp that murdered captives in the Holocaust, soft music plays in the background, and the voice of Micheal Bouquet speaks about the past. As the film progresses more images are presented: normal facilities used for torture, skeletal bodies being bulldozed, and an aerial view

destroyed as well. Even today, the Holocaust still has a large presence on the Jewish community. Many scholars have described how evil is a good representation of the Holocaust, but Richard Rubenstein, Primo Levi, as well as Alain Resnais’ film Night and Fog, are all great sources that provide not only how the Holocaust is an evil with outsider but insider viewpoints as well. There is no doubt that the Holocaust is an example of evil, many contradict this statement. Many say that the Nazis are to be

Assuming that directors make films on genocide to raise awareness and to move people to act for justice, the films we have seen in class try to reflect that theory. Night and Fog is a 1955 French documentary short film directed by Alain Resnais created ten years after to the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The film was composed of shots of the camps making it graphic in nature. It alternates between the present and past using black and white and color shots. They show the Auschwitz remnants

studying of the past to understand the present, we could learn that the human beings possess the power to control our behavior and we could aware of the importance of making choice and come to realize that one person can make a difference. In a film “Night and Fog” by Alain Resnais is a really movie that describe many details that we could not see or learn from other sources. Before watching of this film, we might imagery what it look like the concentration camps but it might be different from the reality

How the Viewer is the Witness in Night and Fog Alain Resnais’ “Night and Fog” is a Holocaust documentary shot in 1955 that served as a lens into the hellish landscape of the Holocaust. It was shot with footage of the Holocaust combined with a voiceover narration that provides a detailed look into the horrors of the Holocaust. The film proved to be a success but it struggled through censorship due to its inherent gruesome nature. This is because the film uses various techniques in such a way that