On or about december 24, 2009 the film was in development status. Interweaving wartime footage with haunting images of. Alain resnais uses the form of the art movie and his own essayfilm innovations to communicate the yawning wound in the human consciousness. Slyvie lindepergs book does something similar for the film itself, and readers willing to tackle it and the film will find the effort well rewarded. Oct 23, 2009 night and fog is an absorbing tale of a mainland chinese womans experiences in hong kongs tin shui wai, or city of sadness, housing complex. Following reports of her death, a number of people who had come into contact with her, recollect events in her life when questioned by the police. This is night and fog by umschoolofcommunication on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. The fog is a 1980 american supernatural horror film directed by john carpenter, who also cowrote the screenplay and created the music for the film. In fact it would be through night and fog that many viewers first learned, as film critic serge daney put it, that the worst had only just taken place.
Our prof warned us that what we would watch was disturbing. Alain resnaiss night and fog nuit et brouillard, 1955 is a 31minute film about the nazi concentration camps that has been called the greatest documentary film every made indeed, francois truffaut called it simply the greatest film ever made 1. As a film it attempts to allow the subject to speak for itself. The picture seemed surprisingly strong given the age and genre of the production. Anatole dauman in berkeley, california june 4, 1990. Required viewing for anyone interested in history, politics, sociology, philosophy, law, ethics, or has an interest in the. How is this film marked by its historical context, including the crucial context of representations of the holocaust. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the night and fog 1956 film article. Night and fog is a great film because it exists only for the viewer to come to some sort of minute understanding of what occurred in the nazi concentration camps during wwii. Directed by alain resnais, it was made ten years after the. This thirty minutes documentary is extremely graphic and. The films narrative follows a strange fog that sweeps in over an island town in the coast of oregon. Night and fog nuit et brouillard 1956 online subtitrat. The hardest hitting of holocaust documentaries is also an art film.
Set during ww ii, a frankenstein like infectious mist unleashed on a military base transforms its victims into preternatural creatures of the night. Resnais juxtaposes the quiet countryside with hell and death and creates the feeling of historys worst nightmare. New transfer with restored image and sound and improved subtitle translation. It stars adrienne barbeau, jamie lee curtis, tom atkins, janet leigh and hal holbrook. Film analysis of night and fog by alain resnais 887 words 4 pages. Alan resnais night and fog was made in 1955 and illustrates with ghastly details exactly what went on inside the nazi death camps of struthuf,oranienburg,auschwitz,belsen,ravenbruck and dachau. The film depicts that gruesome reality of world war ii concentration camps. The film is presented in both color and black and white, and is narrated in french by michael bouquet. Night and fog was part of the curriculum on film history. Ten years after the liberation of the nazi concentration camps, filmmaker alain resnais documented the abandoned grounds of auschwitz. One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of nazi concentration camps.
Aug 20, 2012 but auschwitz was also different because of how familiar it was from feature films and documentaries, and particularly because of alain resnaiss 1955 film nuit et brouillard night and fog. The documentary film from french director resnais set ten years after the second world war depicts the problems of auschwitz with shocking images from the concentration camps. In 1954, hachette published a book of eyewitness accounts of the deportation of the jews. Janus films is proud to present a touring retrospective spanning abbas kiarostamis nearly fivedecade career. Jewish ideas daily daily features through night and fog. The drama that unfolds in the film is mainly carried by the two fantastic perfomances of the two main leads. Viewing questions for night and fog viewing questions. Unknownusers submitted by lindsey h on 02052001 16. Night and fog is an absorbing tale of a mainland chinese womans experiences in hong kongs tin shui wai, or city of sadness, housing complex. Actual footage of nazi atrocities is edited into a surreal journey of horror. This series includes new restorations, undertaken by the criterion collection and mk2, of the koker trilogy, taste of cherry, the wind will carry us, and rarely screened shorts and documentaries. In night and fog this material is artfully blended with meditative shots of auschwitz standing silent and empty in the 1950s these shots filmed in color, unlike the blackandwhite of the past. Choice night and fog gave me a context, a literal frame of art through which i could watch the unwatchable. Night and fog 1956 the history of nazi germanys death camps of the final solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
France 29 april 1956 cannes film festival west germany 1 july 1956 capitol cinema, west berlin italy 5 september 1956 venice film festival soviet union 6 april 1957 leningrad west germany 18 april 1957 tv premiere netherlands 17 may 1957. 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. Its a tribute to the clarity and cogency of night and fog that resnais masterpiece has not been diminished by time, or displaced by longer and more ambitious films on the holocaust, such as shoah and schindlers list. Night and fog is a 1956 french documentary short film. To commemorate the tenyear anniversary of liberation of concentration camps of world war ii, alain resnais released night and fog in 1956 with written commentary by jean cayrol. Director alain resnais goes out of his way to not impose. Framed as a documentary, the film is an unsettling view of life inside the nazi concentration. Alain resnaiss brilliant and disturbing documentary of the nazi concentration camps. Night and fog gave me a context, a literal frame of art through which i could watch the unwatchable. Everything you need to know about night and fog movie. Apr 26, 2017 this program of documentaries ranges from some of the first filmic reflections of the atrocities in the camps in billy wilders death mills 1945 and alain resnaiss night and fog 1956, to a search for the lost east european jewish communities of ruth beckermanns family members before wwii in her film paper bridge 1987, to chantal. Alain resnais night and fog nuit et brouillard runs barely over 30 minutes, yet it manages to pack a lifetime of horrors into its halfhour length.
Night and fog has become the quintessential documentary of the concentration camps, extensively shown at synagogues and by jewish groupsdespite. By clicking on continue you confirm that you are 18 years and over. Night and fog 1955 when the great french director alain resnais accepted producer anatole daumans invitation to make a documentary about the holocaust, he turned to a close friend, the noted poet and publisher jean cayrol, to write the narration that would accompany the films profoundly troubling images. Night and fog 1956 letterboxd social film discovery. The title of this film, night and fog, is completely appropriate at expressing the deeply low nature of what true horror is. Trailer made as a tribute to the legendary 1956 documentary film. The 1956 film night and fog, directed by alain resnais, uses the term to illustrate one aspect of the concentration camp system as it was transformed into a system of labour and death camps. Night and fog with music of fred vogels to show why back to normandy.
Warning thread night and fog nuit et brouillard docu part 22 might contain content that is not suitable for all ages. Nuit et brouillard is a 1956 french documentary short film. This volume does remarkable service to night and fog, a film that in the immediate aftermath of the war challenged viewers to remember the victims of the holocaust. Night and fog when the great french director alain resnais accepted producer anatole daumans invitation to make a documentary about the holocaust, he turned to a close friend, the noted poet and publisher jean cayrol, to write the narration that would accompany the film s profoundly troubling images. It is a remake of john carpenters 1980 film of the same name and was produced by carpenter and debra hill who cowrote the original film. The fog is a 2005 american supernatural horror film directed by rupert wainwright and starring tom welling, selma blair, and maggie grace. But when the survivors try to kill them, they adapt and change into something even more horrific and unstoppable. A look at the night and fog behindthescenes crew and production team.
Click here to start a new topic please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes new to wikipedia. I was a film student at ball state university in the 70s. The footage was shot with the nazis own cameras and those of the liberating allied forces. Hong kongs disadvantaged underclass has become a popular topic in recent years, and with the economy such as it is, ann huis newest, night and fog, couldnt have more relevancy if it tried. Certainly the idea of making a film about such a horror must have been a daunting prospect to a person of resnaiss integrity.
Night and fog won the prestigious prix jean vigo, and was selected for the cannes festival. But after officials from the west german embassy saw the film at a private screening authorized in all innocence by dauman, a letter was sent to the french foreign minister, christian pineau. Shown at san francisco international film festival tribute to anatole dauman april 30 may, 1990. The oscarnominated documentarian discusses resnaiss filmmade in 1955, ten years after the liberation of the nazi concentration campswhich was one of the first to confront the devastation of the holocaust. Warning thread night and fog nuit et brouillard docu part 12 might contain content that is not suitable for all ages. Night and fog has become the quintessential documentary of the concentration camps, extensively shown at synagogues and by jewish groupsdespite barely mentioning jews. Night and fog is a powerful, personal statement about the banality of evil in our time. With michel bouquet, reinhard heydrich, heinrich himmler, adolf hitler. The source material occasionally turned a bit soft or indistinct, but not frequently. Night and fog 1955 when the great french director alain resnais accepted producer anatole daumans invitation to make a documentary about the holocaust, he turned to a close friend, the noted poet and publisher jean cayrol, to write the narration that would accompany the film s profoundly troubling images.
But auschwitz was also different because of how familiar it was from feature films and documentaries, and particularly because of alain resnaiss 1955 film nuit et brouillard night and fog. Mar 23, 2009 hong kongs disadvantaged underclass has become a popular topic in recent years, and with the economy such as it is, ann huis newest, night and fog, couldnt have more relevancy if it tried. Slyvie lindepergs book does something similar for the film itself. No home movie chantal akerman, belgiumfrance 2015, 115 min. Teen sex video featuring rain degrey, chastity lynn and jessie volt. This is not a forum for general discussion of the articles subject put new text under old text. In her final masterpiece, chantal akerman who committed a suicide shortly after completion of the film creates a portrait of her relationship with her mother, natalia, a holocaust survivor and central presence in akermans films. The story of night and fog is based on a real murdersuicide case in 2004 and draws a picture of hong kong, which is viewed by mainland chinese as a city of hope, in a way that couldnt be more dismal and depressing. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of mans brutal inhumanity. Jul 14, 2017 trailer made as a tribute to the legendary 1956 documentary film.
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