DVD
Night and fog
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Performers
Commentary by Jean Cayrol.
Publication Information
[Chicago, IL] : The Criterion Collection, c2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Combines film footage and photos shot inside Nazi concentration camps and scenes of the death camps taken 10 years after the war, with narration describing the horrors that took place there. Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man's violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again.
Notes
DVD format ; Dolby digital mono.
Videodisc release of the 1955 documentary film.
Based on the book, Tragédie de la déportation, by Olga Wormser and Henri Michel.
Not rated.
In French with new and improved English subtitles.
Special features include: New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound ; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from Les Étoiles du cinéma (1994) ; optional isolated music track ; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate ; essay about composer Hanns Eisler by Russell Lack ; crew profiles written by film historican Peter Cowie.
Presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.