Night and Fog is a 1956 French documentary short directed by Alain Resnais, using footage of abandoned concentration camp sites alongside archival photographs and film to document the Nazi concentration and death camp system, framed around the Nacht und Nebel decree, meaning night and fog, under which political prisoners were made to disappear without trace. Made only a decade after the camps' liberation and informed by evidence already presented at the Nuremberg trials, the film was one of the earliest and most influential works of Holocaust documentation on film, and it remains widely used in education about the Holocaust and about state directed disappearance as a method of political repression.
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Who wrote the commentary for Night and Fog?
Jean Cayrol
The commentary is credited to Jean Cayrol, a contemporary poet who had himself been an inmate of a concentration camp. Britannica notes this in its account of the director Alain Resnais, describing the 1956 documentary as having a commentary by a former inmate. Cayrol's words stressed the concentrationary beast slumbering within us all.
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Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard) is a 1956 French documentary short film.
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Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard) is a 1956 French documentary short film.
Night and Fog, Description, original language
Night and Fog is a 1956 French documentary short directed by Alain Resnais, using footage of abandoned concentration camp sites alongside archival photographs and film to document the Nazi concentration and death camp system, framed around the Nacht und Nebel decree, meaning night and fog, under which political prisoners were made to disappear without trace.
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Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard) is a 1956 French documentary short film.
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Alain Resnais
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