Night and Fog

About Night and Fog

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

Night and Fog (1956) is a documentary history film directed by Alain Resnais. At 32 minutes long, it arrived in May 1956.

Michel Bouquet appears as Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Reinhard Heydrich as Self (archive footage) (uncredited), Heinrich Himmler as Self (archive footage) (uncredited), and Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) (uncredited). Written by Jean Cayrol.

Shelv files it under germany, prisoner of war, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, and destruction of a civilization. It streams on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States.

Schindler's List, The Pianist, and The Great Escape make useful companions to Night and Fog, all filed under nazi and world war ii. It scores 8.3 out of 10 from 595 TMDB voters.