Night and Fog 1956

Reviews (12)

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   CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ 8 月 23, 2026

   Let this film be the proof aliens need to realize that humans suck.

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   Sally Jane Black 8 月 23, 2026

   When I was 16, I went on a school trip to Germany. It was a rare opportunity, and I lucky enough that my parents were willing to scrape up enough to send me. During the trip, we visited Dachau. I don’t remember much about the trip, but every last bit of Dachau is etched in my mind. I’ve always found the darker parts of humanity fascinating, and it was darker in some ways than anything my teenage mind could fathom. They showed a film detailing what happened in Dachau, and it remains the most scarring, disturbing film I’ve ever seen. A friend who saw the same film took something else from it, a sense of hope, as the film ends…

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   SilentDawn 8 月 23, 2026

   Unspeakable, deafening horror, not only because of its succession of images, but in the juxtaposition between the visual impact and the musical undercurrent.

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   Lucy 8 月 23, 2026

   i can’t in good conscience rate the realities of human suffering. this is gonna stick with me for a while

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   Andy Siems 8 月 23, 2026

   Once you have experienced NIGHT AND FOG you cannot “un-experience” it. Once you have crossed the line and seen history that is beyond comprehension, you cannot return to your innocence. NIGHT AND FOG is a great film because it exists only for the viewer to come to some sort of minute understanding of what occurred in the Nazi concentration camps during WWII. As a film it attempts to allow the subject to “speak for itself”. Director Alain Resnais goes out of his way to not impose any sort of manipulation by use of music, camera or editing techniques to create any sort of ‘feeling”. Media can easily and usually is used as a tool to create a response to directed…

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   Kirk 8 月 23, 2026

   I don’t think I will ever watch this again, but it will never leave me.

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   noen 8 月 23, 2026

   Everything starts with calm images, beautiful landscapes, as if the world had moved on, as if the scars of horror had disappeared. But then came the black-and-white images, the brutal contrast between the present and the past, and I felt as though something inside me was breaking. There is no possible preparation for what Resnais shows us. Mountains of hair, of shoes, of bones. Tracks that end in gas chambers. I watched it all with a lump in my throat, a mix of anger, sadness, and helplessness that is impossible to describe. Jean Cayrol’s narration is one of the most striking parts. A Holocaust survivor. It’s not just what he says, but how he says it, with a calmness that…

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   Kenta Suzuki 8 月 23, 2026

   “I’m not responsible”, says the Kapo. “I’m not responsible”, says the officer. “I’m not responsible” who is responsible then? – Michel Bouquet Alain Resnais’ World War II documentary explores a concentration camp in southern Poland called Auschwitz. Auschwitz is one of the most horrific and dreadful atrocities humanity has ever known. The film is extremely severe as it revolves around the Holocaust. Though the contents of the documentary are severe, voiceover narrator Michel Bouquet narrated the film in such an evocative way that it’s probably one of the most chill Holocaust documentaries despite its harrowing story. Bouquet tells the sadism inflicted upon the doomed inmates, including scientific and medical experiments, executions, and rape. Night and Fog was filmed just 10…

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   Josh Lewis 8 月 23, 2026

   “A concentration camp is built like a stadium or hotel: with contractors, estimates, bids, and no doubt a bribe or two. No specific style—that’s left to the imagination.” Creates an almost surreal horror out of the mundane machinery of genocide.

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    Aaron Michael 8 月 23, 2026

    Does more with thirty minutes than most films do with two hours.

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    Wes 8 月 23, 2026

    “who among us keeps watch from this strange watchtower to warn of the arrival of new executioners? are their faces really so different from ours?”

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    Eli Hayes 8 月 23, 2026

    That image of the women’s hair will be ingrained in my mind forever. I actually vomited. Night and Fog stands beside Baraka as one of the most powerful documentaries of all-time, one exposing the beauty of our world, and the other, this one, exposing the very heart of darkness, the very core of the deepest abyss imaginable. Resnais summoned the courage to bring us the blackened, cold piece of cinema that every other filmmaker was afraid to bring us. There’s nothing else to say; the film speaks for itself. I’m not even going to tell you that it’s a must-see, because I wouldn’t blame anyone that decides to pass this beast up… but it is, without question, one of the greatest films ever made.

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