Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog)

Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) (1955)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (15 reviews)

  • 94% of users liked it
    (6,020 ratings)

Night and Fog represents the peak of director Alain Resnais' activities as a short-subject filmmaker. Framed as a documentary, the film is an unsettling view of life inside the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. As he would in his later features (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Documentary, Drama
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1955 Wide
On DVD
Jun 24, 2003
Argos Films

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Only half an hour long, this is the greatest film ever made about the concentration camps.

  • Phil Hall, Film Threat

    One of the greatest documentaries ever made.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Still remains timely.

  • Widgett Walls, Needcoffee.com

    Regardless, this is a film that must be viewed. It's almost a prerequisite to being human to have to come face to face with your own capacity for inhumanity. Only after you recognize it can you deal with it.

  • Dan Jardine, Apollo Guide

    Provokes contemplative self-inquiry, and moves us beyond our initial and immediate emotionally simplistic knee-jerk horror and disgust.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Graham J


    A film that is hard but necessary to watch. Extremely powerful.

  • Reid V


    Easily the most unforgettable and moving documentary you will ever see. The sober narrative contrasted with the grave footage of Nazi atrocities makes for a very moving experience. The camera also glides over the ruins which perfectly augments the narrative's meditation on who is… More

  • Randy T


    Powerful, gruesome documentary footage of Nazi concentration camps. A hard but necessary watch, should be required viewing for students the world over.

  • Ken S


    It's brilliant, but I can't say I really liked it. Probably the roughest film I've ever seen. Not for the faint of heart.

  • Daniel H


    Powerful, short, and disturbing. Looking back over half a century later, this is a vivid primary reminder. A reel of images that capture the immensity while it was still too recent to analyze... it was something to be seen and quietly observed, the mouth was too slack-jawed to form a… More

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