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Best movie of this year hands down!

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The first must-see film of the year.

31 minute short about the concentration camps of WW2. It opens with beautiful footage from 1955 of the deserted camps. The sky is blue, birds are flying, grass is growing. Then the film shifts to b&w footage of the Nazis deporting hundreds of people to the death camps. We see graphic footage of what they did to those poor people intercut with beautiful color footage. Also there's matter of fact narration and a music score.I first saw this in high school back in 1980. It didn't shock or horrify me. I still feel the same way years later. The intrusive music score and sometimes insipid narration keep you at arms length. There was zero emotional impact from me despite the images. "Schindler's List" and "Shoah" covered all this material already. So it IS essential viewing but it didn't work for me sadly.

The problem with most Holocaust films is that they portray the story as a one time only event. They make it so overly sentimental that the viewer is able to distance himself of what he's seeing and takes comfort on the idea that something like that will never happen again.But not Night and Fog.Alain Resnais presents the line between past and present as it really is: thinner than we think. To do that, it relies only on real footage of the concentration camps during the Holocaust and of the same concentration camps 10 years after the end of the WW II. The voice over tells us what we are seeing, making us look at all the details, never letting us off the hook. We're not supposed to feel comfortable, not even by looking at abandoned concentration camps. The fingernail scratches on the walls of the gas chambers are there. It happened and we better remember it! The fact that it has only 30 minutes doesn't make it less powerful. On the contrary, it condenses its message into an overwhelming half an hour.My only complain is for the soundtrack. Its complexity may get a bit distracting and almost inappropriate. Maybe some absolute silence moments could help make the message even stronger, if that's even possible.Overall, Night and Fog is a masterpiece. The fact that my mind and my body can't disconnect of what I just seen is the first sign I just witnessed something extraordinary.

I saw "Night and Fog" in film class as a teenager over 40 years ago. I have never forgotten it, nor will ever as long as I live.Anyone who sees this film will understand what will happen when one group of human beings cedes absolute dominance over themselves to another group. Notice my use of the word "will". Some may not ADMIT they understand (eg., the holocaust deniers), but they WILL understand.One point seven million Cambodians, one million Armenians, four hundred thousand Cossacks, three million Ukrainians, six million Jews as well as a like number from other "undesirable" categories. On and on...And yes, the Holocaust DID happen.One half hour you will never, ever forget. Absolutely shattering.

testimony. cold, precise, powerful, profound. about Shoah. about us. it is not a history lesson or pledge for well know past. it is not a masterpiece. it is presentation of truth. not exactly truth about Auschwitz or Nazi crimes. but about every dictatorship, every form of totalitarian regime. because Resnais film is create in 1955. the war is over. the Cold War is present. the Gulag, Sighet or Pitești phenomenon are parts of reality. it is not Schindler list or adaptation of memories. it is a powerful cry. out of rules, political correctness, excuses or pink drops. images are skin of an open wound. any cure, any medicine. only images, faces, pictures, gray words. and conscience as prey. that is all. rest is silence. or taste of ash. or exercise of imagination about yourself as crumb of a murder without limits or object of comparison.