| Description |
1 videodisc (31 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 197 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 197.
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| System Details |
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby digital mono.; new high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound. |
| Language |
French dialogue, English subtitles. |
| Credits |
Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Vierny ; narrator, Michel Bouquet ; music, Hanns Eisler ; production designer, Edouard Muszka ; executive producers, Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. |
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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." |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Buildings -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Internment camps -- Europe -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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| Local Subject |
FOREIGN FILMS (FRENCH), VIDEODISCS.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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Historical films.
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Motion pictures France.
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| Added Author |
Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998.
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Halfon, Samy.
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Lifchitz, Philippe.
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Cayrol, Jean.
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Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014.
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Cloquet, Ghislain.
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Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.
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Bouquet, Michel.
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Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962.
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Muszka, Edouard.
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Como Films.
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Argos Films.
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Cocinor (Firm)
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Janus Films.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Night and fog |
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Nuit et brouillard |
| Note |
Title on container: Alain Resnais' Night and fog |
| ISBN |
0780026942 |
| Standard No. |
037429180822 |
| Music No. |
NIG110 Criterion Collection |
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