Alan Resnais' "Night and Fog" was made in 1955 and illustrates with ghastly details exactly what went on inside the Nazi death camps of Struthuf,Oranienburg,Auschwitz,Belsen,Ravenbruck and Dachau.The footage was shot with the Nazi's own cameras and those of the liberating Allied Forces.This thirty minutes documentary is extremely graphic and disturbing.It shows buckets of detached heads lining the corridors,medical 'experiments' in progress and huge mounds of half burnt bodies being bulldozed into mass graves.Resnais filmed color footage of the empty,overgrown concentration camps Auschwitz and Majdanek and juxtaposed it with historical black and white images.The score by Hans Eisler is incredibly powerful as is the narration written by Jean Cayrol,a French poet,novelist and camp survivor.This is surely the film that needs to be seen by everyone interested in the true story of the Holocaust.10 out of 10.
Review of Night and Fog
