Night and Fog
Nuit et brouillard
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Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, tranquil color tracking shots of the overgrown, peaceful ruins of Auschwitz and Majdanek alternate with devastating black-and-white archival footage documenting the industrial apparatus of extermination and human complicity: 'Man's capacity to forget.' Alain Resnais and Jean Cayrol's profound, 32-minute cinematic memorial featuring Hanns Eisler's score.
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Alain Resnais
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