New high-defintion digital transfer, with restored image and sound Excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from Les Étoiles du Cinéma (1994) Optional isolated music track New essay about the film by Phillip Lopate Essay about composer Hanns Eisler by Russell Lack Crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie New and improved English subtitle translation
[Criterion Collection] Audio: DD1
Rating: NR Genre:
History Release Date: 06/24/2003 SubTitles: English Dubbed: French Sound: DD1 Run Time: 31 min Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children Distributor/Studio: Criterion
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 Marienbad et. al.) Resnais toys with chronology, with memory becoming present reality and vice versa at several critical junctures. Jean Cayrol, later responsible for the script of Resnais' Muriel (1962), wrote the narration for Night and Fog. The film was originally released in France as Nuit et Brouillard.
