Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) 1955 concentration camp film

[alchemy]

These are likely to be the most powerful 32 minutes of film you are going to find anywhere; describing it in words simply cannot do it justice.   For those who seriously, or even occassionally, doubt the atrocities of the Holocaust I would urge you to view this film --- you will never forget the experience.

Filmed in 1955 in Auschwitz by Alain Resnais, it was actually made for the purpose of highlighting the issue of the French intervention in Algeria (according to IMDB.com).   Whatever reason it was made for, it contains extracts of National Socialist archive material that you will never see on the History Channel.    A truly sobering experience as to the depths STS beings can descend.

I considered giving examples of some of the scenes, but I don't think I want to -- if you are inclined to see it then you will, and if not -- then not.  

Highly recommended.

[Mechanic]

I can only say that I also highly recommend this film. For me this film showed me what psychopaths in power are capable of, the depths to which they are able to descend. And the suffering, the terrible suffering of the victims... It's hard to fathom still after seeing the pictures and hearing the story, though I think I now can relate a tiny bit better.

This is a horrible film to watch, though I found it important to see it. I can't say I wish I hadn't seen it, though it'll stay with me forever.

Recommended, but know what you're in for.

[SeekinTruth]

I saw this film around 1987. I agree that it is very powerful from what I remember.

[loreta]

A very important movie, as another one by him, Hiroshima mon amour. Nuit et brouillard is a very hard movie, very strong. I think it is one of the first movies treating this terrible subject, giving the chance to think about all this, all the horror and all the consequences. Thanks to remind us about this movie, I think I will see it again.

[SeekinTruth]

A very important movie, as another one by him, Hiroshima mon amour. Nuit et brouillard is a very hard movie, very strong. I think it is one of the first movies treating this terrible subject, giving the chance to think about all this, all the horror and all the consequences. Thanks to remind us about this movie, I think I will see it again.

I also saw "Hiroshima Mon Amour" around the same time in 1987, and also remember it being very powerful. FWIW.

[loreta]

A very important movie, as another one by him, Hiroshima mon amour. Nuit et brouillard is a very hard movie, very strong. I think it is one of the first movies treating this terrible subject, giving the chance to think about all this, all the horror and all the consequences. Thanks to remind us about this movie, I think I will see it again.

I also saw "Hiroshima Mon Amour" around the same time in 1987, and also remember it being very powerful. FWIW.

Yes, very powerful. Extremely interesting about how we perceive the others, about racism, about the war, about compassion. I remember one sentence that always comes during the movie: tu n'as rien vu a Hiroshima. (You didn't see anything at Hiroshima.) We can look Hiroshima but we were not there. Museums can not express the horror, films can not express the total horror. But for us, that we were not at Hiroshima or in the concentrations camps, films and human contact, love, fraternity, are one way that we have to try to understand.  I like very much Alain Renais. He is not an easy director, he is also very poetic. Another very important movie by him is La guerre est finie. (The war is finished). But the war is not finished, in fact. The war is something that is always there, the war, the sufferance, the intolerance, the fight against it. Spanish people should see again this movie.  Today, more than before, those 3 movies are  very actual. Like if Time is coming back. Strange.