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Encyclopedia > Night and Fog (movie)

Night and Fog (original French title Nuit et brouillard) is a 1955 documentary film contrasting the placidity of the post-Holocaust concentration camp at Auschwitz with the events that occurred there during World War II, and musing on the diffusion of guilt. The film is in French, in color and black and white, is 32 minutes long, and was directed by Alain Resnais. See also: 1954 in film 1955 1956 in film 1950s in film years in film film Events November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts. ... Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ... This article deals with the Nazi Holocaust. ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpieces Hiroshima mon amour (1959), written by Marguerite Duras, and Last Year at Marienbad (Lannée dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, but also recognised for...


The film takes its title from the German Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog) prisoners during World War II. While viewers might expect the film to be about the prisoners' stories, it deals briefly with their conditions and focuses primarily on questions of hate and human responsibility. Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog ) was an incident and edict in Nazi Germany. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...


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