Night and Fog

May 22, 1956

0h 32m

★ 8.3

Overview

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

Argos films

Night and Fog Trailers

Cast

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Michel Bouquet

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Reinhard Heydrich

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Heinrich Himmler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Julius Streicher

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