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Alain Resnais' astounding documentary on the Holocaust, commissioned by the French Committee for the History of the Second World War, remains one of the most respected ever made.

The film takes its title from Hitler`s decree that anyone who "endangered Germany`s security" was to "vanish without trace (in the) night and fog" of the Third Reich. A harrowing look at concentration camps and the Holocaust, it carefully juxtaposes documentary footage, shot in black and white by the Allied troops, who liberate the camps with contemporary colour footage of a tour of the ruins of Auschwitz in the 50s. The images that Resnais presents are so haunting that any attempt to describe them in words is almost futile. How does one comment on footage chronicling the German Army executing the "logic" of the "Final Solution".

Primo Levi wrote in his acclaimed book "If this is a Man" - "It happened, therefore it can happen again" and the poetic refrain of the narrator of "Night and Fog"- "who is responsible", forces us to confront the Holocaust as a continuing potentiality. A measure of the impact of this outstanding, heart wrenching and thought-provoking film came in May 1990 when following a wave of attacks on Jewish cemeteries in France, all five national channels simultaneously postponed their schedules to transmit "Night And Fog".

"For a few hours, "Nuit et brouillard" wipes out the memory of all other films. It absolutely must be seen" (Francois Truffaut) (Verlagstext)