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Summary: A Pure Distillation of the Images of the Holocaust
Review: I first saw "Night and Fog" in a 16mm format when I was a senior in high school in 1970. So powerful and devastating was the imagery of this extraordinary short documentary, that it took me another 30 years to be able to watch other films on the Holocaust, such as "Schindler's List." When I saw "Night and Fog," I said to myself, "No other film needs to be made about the Holocaust. This is the definitive film." The stark, black and white images are devastating and powerful. In reading about the availability the film on video, I was astonished to see that the film had been made in 1955, so soon after the war. In the ensuing 45 years, it has lost none of its potency. For me, this is still the film that set the standard for all subsequent work on the Holocaust. Resnais' treatment of this subject will still burn the images right onto your retina.I have since seen other films depicting the Holocaust, including "Schindler's List" and "Life is Beautiful," both of which were excellent. But "Night and Fog" is still the one work that will shake you to your marrow. I visited the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem in the late 70's, and the emotional experience was identical to and of the same wrenching caliber as watching "Night and Fog." Truth is truth. We need to look at it, even when it would be more comfortable to turn away. Thank God someone like Resnais had the courage to tell the truth of the Holocaust in a ruthless and inescapable way that holds us all accountable. "Night and Fog" should give us all the courage to call evil by its name out loud when we see it, and to stand together to stop it. This should be required viewing for everyone.
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Summary: A Pure Distillation of the Images of the Holocaust
Review: I first saw "Night and Fog" in a 16mm format when I was a senior in high school in 1970. So powerful and devastating was the imagery of this extraordinary short documentary, that it took me another 30 years to be able to watch other films on the Holocaust, such as "Schindler's List." When I saw "Night and Fog," I said to myself, "No other film needs to be made about the Holocaust. This is the definitive film." The stark, black and white images are devastating and powerful. In reading about the availability the film on video, I was astonished to see that the film had been made in 1955, so soon after the war. In the ensuing 45 years, it has lost none of its potency. For me, this is still the film that set the standard for all subsequent work on the Holocaust. Resnais' treatment of this subject will still burn the images right onto your retina. I have since seen other films depicting the Holocaust, including "Schindler's List" and "Life is Beautiful," both of which were excellent. But "Night and Fog" is still the one work that will shake you to your marrow. I visited the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem in the late 70's, and the emotional experience was identical to and of the same wrenching caliber as watching "Night and Fog." Truth is truth. We need to look at it, even when it would be more comfortable to turn away. Thank God someone like Resnais had the courage to tell the truth of the Holocaust in a ruthless and inescapable way that holds us all accountable. "Night and Fog" should give us all the courage to call evil by its name out loud when we see it, and to stand together to stop it. This should be required viewing for everyone.
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Summary: The single most compelling holocaust film ever made
Review: I first saw this film in a high school history class 20 years ago, before the subject was at all topical or widely-studied. "Night and Fog" I felt was the perfect title - "Night" because it was the darkest period in human history, and "Fog" because it showed us how the rest of the world was blinded to the abject horror of the concentration camps. Later movies and documentaries have never come close to the impact of this film for the reason that the directors have not had the stomach Alain had to use the actual Nazi footage from dachau, bergen belsen and other locations. That is what makes this film so shocking - it's real, not dramatized. No film library of WW2 is complete without it.
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Summary: The single most compelling holocaust film ever made
Review: I first saw this film in a high school history class 20 years ago, before the subject was at all topical or widely-studied. "Night and Fog" I felt was the perfect title - "Night" because it was the darkest period in human history, and "Fog" because it showed us how the rest of the world was blinded to the abject horror of the concentration camps. Later movies and documentaries have never come close to the impact of this film for the reason that the directors have not had the stomach Alain had to use the actual Nazi footage from dachau, bergen belsen and other locations. That is what makes this film so shocking - it's real, not dramatized. No film library of WW2 is complete without it.
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Summary: Important, critical, and wrenching
Review: I first saw this film with my father when I was perhaps 11. I have seen it since at least twice. Many of the previous reviewers have the right of it. It needs to be required viewing of anyone studying Western history, as well as us now as reminder that indeed, some of our world's neighbors have not moved on from this. WIth the goings on in Africa, Middle East, and the Bosian conflicts, we need to be constantly reminded that we must remain vigilant as a global society - that we can be the voices for the voiceless.
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Summary: Night And Fog--will give you chills,provoke your conscious
Review: I have seen a lot of Holocaust movies, but never has one moved me as much as this one. Caution--it is ver graphic, but sometimes the truth can be that way. I recommend this movie to anyone interested in the truth about Hitler and The Holocaust.
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Summary: Moving
Review: I was in a Holocaust literature class in college this past semester, and this film was shown. It was so powerful and moving. I will never forget the piles of hair or the bodies being shoveled into large pits by bulldozers.
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Summary: Beautiful horror
Review: I watched Night and Fog this morning.
It's about the Holocaust and was filmed only ten years after liberations of the camps.
It mixes black and white film recorded during the war with color film showing the empty camps.
The one shot that stays with me is the room full of hair.
For a film that is only 31 minutes it's very powerful.
This is not a film for the squimish.... It shows the truth of the Nazi horror.
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Summary: Important and Devastating
Review: I watched this film as part of a course on French identity. Before showing the film, my instructor (French and not Jewish) mentioned that it would be about the Haulocaust but did not explain how extraordinarily graphic the film is. It's been three weeks since I watched the film, and I still feel raw. The film is absolutely DEVASTATING. I strongly recommend seeing Nuit et Brouillard; however, I also strongly caution potential viewers that the film may have profound and lasting psychological effects.
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Summary: don't eat before you watch this!
Review: I will never forget this french film (it is translated) about the Nazi concentration camps. It is a very informative film, which much of the film was from the Nazi archives. The Nazi's did a lot of filming of what they did, thinking that they will show the new generation what they did to get Germany to be the most powerful nation in the world. Film is very gory. It talks about the lies the Germans told the Jews and the kinds of stuff they made out of their skin, hair ect. I will never forget this film! END
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