Night And Fog 1956 FRE MULTISUB 1080p BluRay x264

Year: 1956
Country: France
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
IMBD: Link

Language : French
Subtitles : English, Chinese, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish (Latin American), Turkish





When the Comité d'Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale commissioned Alain Resnais to memorialize the concentration camps, they expected a newsreel-style film. But Resnais, who had been experimenting with the short documentary format since the mid-1940s, recognized that traditional documentary techniques would fall short of the task. Resnais and his circle felt that standard documentary tools such as authoritative voiceovers, interviews with talking heads, and complementary music would either serve to rationalize the incomprehensible atrocities or desensitize viewers to them.

Instead, Resnais turned to the more experimental and politicized techniques that he had already been developing with fellow documentarian Chris Marker. For their short film Les Statues Meurent Aussi/Statues Also Die (1953), they had employed contrapuntal editing and a provocative voiceover commentary. The twenty-two-minute film treated the art and artists of Africa with respect while its unorthodox form both challenged the tools of documentary filmmaking and encouraged viewers to reconsider dominant ideas about French colonialism. Such sentiments drew the ire of government censors; since the film too clearly indicted French cultural imperialism, Statues Also Die was banned for twelve years and, to this day, prints of the film remain difficult to obtain.

Within this mid-1950s political climate of French imperialism, government censorship, and postwar shock, Resnais found that the subversive techniques he employed in Statues Also Die suited this new project on the concentration camps remarkably well. He endeavored to expose the past horrors of World War II under the raking light of continuing imperialist atrocities committed in the name of France. The result was not the staid newsreel originally commissioned but Nuit et Brouillard/Night and Fog (1955), a thirty-two-minute documentary renowned for its controversial approach to its grave subject.

In this article, I argue for a reconsideration of this film, which is routinely critiqued as being either too universal in its scope or, alternately, not specific enough. Rather, I suggest that the filmmakers chose to emphasize the political "Night and Fog" prisoners of World War II in particular -- not only to express a sense of personal testimony in the film, but also to compare these political resistance prisoners to the Algerian nationalists who were presently being colonized, tortured, and murdered under French rule.

Resnais had begun work on Night and Fog in May 1955 and completed post-production in December 1955. Horrified and outraged that atrocities like those committed by the Nazis were now being perpetuated by French forces in Algeria, he sought ways to include pointed references to Algeria in the film despite the threat of censorship. The film's enigmatic script and its renowned oscillating temporal structure between past and present facilitated this goal.

Of course, the film's unspoken link to Algeria has been noted by the filmmakers themselves and by a handful of scholars some decades ago; yet surprisingly, recent literature on the film either ignores or rejects this interpretation. To date, critics have not fully recognized the extent or implications of Night and Fog's focus on the camps' political prisoners. As a result, they have overlooked the centrality of the Algerian connection. I assert that the political focus and highly subversive nature of this documentary have never been more relevant; thus understanding Night and Fog in relation to the Algerian War is crucial to fully appreciating its formal innovations, critical tone, and continuing importance.

Indeed, the true power of Night and Fog is its continuing relevance to international audiences. The film maintains its specificity regarding its commissioned subject of World War II concentration camps; yet that specificity may slip productively for subsequent viewing audiences of many nationalities. The film's "warning siren" message against the "new executioners" readily metamorphoses to address forthcoming wars and "conflicts" not only in Algeria, but then the Cold War, Viet Nam, Bosnia, Iraq... the list over the past fifty years is long and still grows today. The persistence of Night and Fog's relevance lies in its indictment of all atrocities committed in the name of war, national sovereignty, and socio-economic dominance. (Virginia Bonner)

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UID: 4045435280670076366
Hidden: No
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Chapters:
00:00:00,000-00:02:49,210: Restoration Info and Credits {eng}
00:02:49,210-00:09:08,214: Building the Camps {eng}
00:09:08,214-00:17:07,651: "Another Planet" {eng}
00:17:07,651-00:21:09,434: "Man is Resilient" {eng}
00:21:09,434-00:29:49,412: Extermination {eng}
00:29:49,412-00:33:05,858: "Who is Responsible?" {eng}

This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 11-05-2026 16:44:24