Night and Fog - Criterion Collection

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Summary: Horror brought Home
Review: They showed us 'Night and Fog' in school. I was 13. It hit me like a bag of bricks then as it does now. It's one thing to read a schoolbook that says there were 'atrocities'. It is quite another to see piles of hair, gold teeth, wedding rings, shoes piled high and to realize all their owners were already dead. Seeing for the first time the reality of hunger on a human being, seeing piled bodies. I had nightmares then, and I have them now. Several students left, sickened. We were all stunned....they had to send us all home. For about a week we just could not function in the, what we now realized, lavish American lifestyle. We never felt safe again. We had seen hell. I believe the librarian was fired for showing us this film at such a young age. I am 32 now, and it has never left me, this film...and its horrors.

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Summary: The perfect educational tool!
Review: This documentary is one of the best I have ever seen regarding the stark realities of the Holocaust. It demands attention without both oversimplifying and overdoing the topic. Night and Fog is a wonderful educational tool for classrooms everywhere!

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Summary: Shocking!
Review: This film is truely shocking init's protrayals. Every school child studying the holocause should be required to see this film. This makes the tales of "attrocities" that we read about, our teachers lecture about and survivors tell about very REAL. The film is short, but says it all. The only improvement I would make is to replace the french narration and english subtitles with an all new english narration because taking time to read the subtitles is distracting from the imagery.

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Summary: Night and Fog: a must see and essential film
Review: This is one of the most powerful and most graphic films on the Holocaust available, and I would hardly recommend it to younger viewers. Let them witness a live execution of a man in the electric chair first, and work up to this movie. Yet, it is for this very reason why this film is a must see. If we turn our heads away it might happen all over again--to us!

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Summary: Not just VHS piped to DVD
Review: This is what Enhanced CD tried to do in SF's Multimedia gulch three years ago. A great collection of short films and animation cleverly fused together into a cohesive unit. I still think about "Night and Fog" three days after watching it. If you have an interest in independent films, you will love this collection.

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Summary: Night and Fog
Review: This movie is an intense one of the Holocaust. ***Remember dont eat anything while watching or you may end up in the bath. *** When I viewed this movie I had to watch in two installments it got me so much. To think of myself as a victim going thru this like this I can understand why alot of people dont trust people afterward. There are scenes in here where they show you what the germans did to the bodies of the jews and I am not talking about the incinerators although that was shown as well. For example germans declared the jews hair a nice shag for sweaters and rugs so that is what happened. They shaved their hair and saved it and sewed it together for clothes and rugs etc. Alot of body parts were recycled. At the expense of the jews. Doctors werent any better. They definitely didnt think about the jews at all. If you as a jew got sick you were a dead duck anyway. They experimented with you any way they wanted. Lots of people were left deformed and such. As I said in the beginning, it is totally intense and lots of reality pictures are shown and things you couldnt imagine. If History is your thing and this particular era in time is it, then get this video. If you want to learn more about the Holocaust get this video. I would suggest that no kids watch this until the parent has watched it first. Please rent the video or go to your library b4 buying though cause of the intensity of the material involved.

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Summary: wow!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie was eye catching. I have seen this movie twice and I enjoyed it each time. It is really sad what happens to the people in the movie.

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Summary: The most disturbing Holocaust documentary ever
Review: This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.

First, this film is NOT for children. It is a very graphic film about the holocaust.

10 years after the holocaust a film crew went to the then abandoned Auschwitz Konzentrationslager site. Intercut with footage taken after the liberation of Auschwitz, it is a real life experience if the aftermath of the most horrific autrocity in modern history.
This film should be shown to the masses so we never forget what happened and to prevent history from repeating itself.

I believe it necessary for the film to be as graphic as it is, so people remember the truth about what happened there and for them to know how bad things actually were.

6,000,000 Jews senselessly murdered along with 5,000,000 Poles, Gyspies, Russians, handicapped, Jehovah's witnesses, homosexuals, mentally retarded, war prisoners, and political prisoners.

The Criterion Collection has done humanity a favor by restoring this film and releasing in on DVD which gives it the preservation needed for posterity to know that such autrocities have occured.

There are some good special features also. There are excerpts from two audio interviews with the director Alain Resnais, an essay about the composer Hanns Eisler and an optional music only track.

In closing I would like to say that people who deny that the Holocaust happened should be forced to watch this film.

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Summary: Gruesome Images
Review: This was a great documentary. I will never forget the images that were shown in this documentary. The style the director used with the archive was great; I felt a huge amount of sadness for the lives lost while watching the present day archive. The technique and style of how he put everything together kept my eyes glued to the television the entire time. The reality of what happened at those camps was so gruesome that it made me want to cry.

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Summary: Gruesome Images
Review: This was a great documentary. I will never forget the images that were shown in this documentary. The style the director used with the archive was great; I felt a huge amount of sadness for the lives lost while watching the present day archive. The technique and style of how he put everything together kept my eyes glued to the television the entire time. The reality of what happened at those camps was so gruesome that it made me want to cry.