Vote on this title
Click on a gene to vote or discover related titles.
-
Mood:
- BleakContemplativeDisturbingThought ProvokingEmotionalUplifting
-
Plot:
- Anti HeroesSoldierLeadershipPoliticsSurvivalUncover TruthAnti SemitismAnti War more...
-
Genres:
- HistoricalForeignDocumentaryDramaPeriodWar
-
Time/Period:
- World War 2
-
Place:
- EuropePolandConcentration Camp
-
Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedMasterpiece
-
Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
Does this gene fit Night and Fog?
Find it on:
| IMDb | |
| Rotten Tomatoes |
Night and Fog, 1955
French
France
Profile of Night and Fog
The mood of Night and Fog is disturbing, thought provoking, and bleak. The plot centers around anti semitism, genocide, and the Holocaust. It is a foreign, documentary, and historical short film. In approach, Night and Fog is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a concentration camp. Night and Fog is set in Poland. It happens during World War 2. The short film is known for being a masterpiece and critically acclaimed.
Summary of Night and Fog
This lyrical and graphic documentary--one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust's horror--has deeply affected film's treatment of the Holocaust ever since, including Spielberg's SCHINDLER'S LIST. Documentarian Alain Resnais contrasts 1955 footage of abandoned concentration camps' quiet, empty buildings with black-and-white footage shot there in 1944; the film's overwhelming resonance comes in its allowing the haunting images to stand on their own: a grainy, back-lit hill of human hair, a pyramid of shoes.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France |
| Release date: | 1955 |
| Runtime: | 32 min |
Users Reviews
- 19.March.2009
- |
- by: trentohm
- trentohm rated this movie
10/10Must See
