Night and Fog - Criterion Collection
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• Black & White
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• Subtitled
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In Theaters : 1955
DVD Release : 24 June, 2003 |
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Night and Fog - Criterion Collection description
Though only a short subject, this groundbreaking documentary remains one of the most influential and powerful explorations of the Holocaust ever made. Director Alain Resnais bluntly presents an indictment not only of the Nazis but of the world community, and the film is all the more remarkable for its harsh judgment considering the time in which it w ... review details
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Night and Fog - Criterion Collection Customer Reviews
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| I've noted that a number of reviewers mention seeing Night and Fog in a high school class. I think one would have to be very careful about using this film in high school. This is not simply because it is very graphic. If it is the ONLY film about the Holocaust that students see, particularly in the context of a survey course in European history, where there's very little time for an in-depth look at anything, it could accomplish little. Watching the film, students see the horrors perpetrated by the SS, but they do not get any sense of how anti-Semitism pervaded every aspect of society, not only in Germany and Poland, but in other countries as well. Night and Fog gives students bad men to hate, but it does not ask then to consider who supported Hitler and made his rise to power possible. For this purpose, the film Au Revoir Les Enfants is very good, since it reveals the anti-Semitism that existed at all level of French society, from the cook's helper to the protagonist's mother. It can begin a great discussion about prejudice in its different manifestations. Films like Night and Fog shouldn't be employed for their shock value alone; one must reserve plenty of discussion time for the complex issues they raise. If the film is part of a comprehensive examination of the Holocaust, then it has a purpose to serve, but if it is not taught wisely and carefully, then for students it becomes a film about an evil that occurred a long time ago---and has nothing to do with them. |
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