The Criterion Collection

Night and Fog

Edition no. 197

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  • Release Date: July 19 2016
  • Country of Release: USA
  • MSRP: $39.95
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Argos Films
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing the stillness of the abandoned camps’ empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of humanity’s violence against humanity, and presents the devastating suggestion that such horrors could occur again.
  • Year: 1955
  • Time: 31 min.

Technical Specifications

Format: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: French 1.0 PCM Mono
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Subtitles: English
Region: A
Discs: 1 Disc |  BD-50

Supplements

  • Excerpts of audio interviews with Alain Resnais from Le Cinema des cineastes (1980) and Les etoiles du cinema (1994)
  • New interview with documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer
  • Face aux fantômes, a 99-minute 2009 documentary featuring historian Sylvie Lindeperg that explores the French memory of the Holocaust and the controversy surrounding the film’s release
  • Insert featuring an essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe

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Release Credits

Producer: Jason Altman
Artwork: Sarah Habibi

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