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Night and Fog

Night and Fog

19568.20h 32m

Overview

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Directed by Alain Resnais
Written by Jean Cayrol, Chris Marker
Produced by Philippe Lifchitz, Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon
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Top Cast

Michel Bouquet

Michel Bouquet

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Julius Streicher

Julius Streicher

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Themes & Keywords

destruction of a civilizationnazigermanyworld war iiprisoner of warauschwitz-birkenau concentration camptortureshort film

About Night and Fog

Night and Fog is a documentary, history film released in 1956 exploring themes of destruction of a civilization, nazi, germany, world war ii, prisoner of war, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp. Directed by Alain Resnais, it stars Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler. Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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