Alain Resnais Night and fog

Hailed by Francois Truffaut as "the greatest film ever made", Alain Resnais' remarkable Night And Fog stands as the definitive documentary on the Holocaust, its overwhelming power and effectiveness remaining unsurpassed to this day. As both a superior piece of cinema and a damning indictment of man's capacity for inhumanity, it is a landmark film that demands to be seen. Commissioned by the French Committee for the History of the Second World War, Night And Fog was made in 1955, just ten years after the conflict's end exposed the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps to a horrified world. With narration scripted by celebrated French poet, novelist and essayist Jean Cayrol (himself a survivor of the notorious KZ Gusen I camp), Resnais' film carefully and effectively juxtaposes newly filmed footage of the abandoned site at Auschwitz with archival footage shot between 1933 and the end of the war by members of the Allied Forces and the Nazis themselves.