Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment Run time: 32mins Year: 1955 Release date: 17/09/2008 RRP: $ 29.99
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Francois Truffaut called it "the greatest film of all time", and more than 50 years later, Alan Resnais' (Hiroshima Mon Amour) unforgettable document of the Nazi concentration camps remains a devastating reocrd of man's inhumanity to man.
Filmed only ten years after the horrific unfolding of Hitler's 'final solution', Resnais blends colour images of the strangely still, abandoned concentration camp at Auschwitz with black and white newsreel footage of the atrocities that occurred there, creating a diabolic image of political and ideological powerr, and the untold human suffering that it unleashed.
Namesake for Hitler's Nacht und Nebel decree in which political prisoners across Europe were kidnapped in the night and removed to german death camps, Night and Fog remains the definitive cinematic statement on the horrors of the Holocaust.
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