Night and Fog
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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Cast
5 people
Michel Bouquet
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Known for
The Toy
The Bride Wore Black
Reinhard Heydrich
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Also in
Dead Men's Secrets
Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Also in
War of the Century
Hitler's Last Year
Julius Streicher
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alain Resnais Director · Jean Cayrol Screenplay Hanns Eisler Composer
First release January 29, 1956 · Produced in France · Production Cocinor, Cosmo Film
Production
Argos films
Production
Cocinor
Production
Cosmo Film
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France
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Original title
Nuit et Brouillard
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · January 29, 1956
Premiere
France · May 22, 1956
Limited theatrical · Paris
No release date listed for United States.
Australia
February 25, 2005 · Limited theatrical · Adelaide Film Festival
August 1, 2008 · Physical · Umbrella Entertainment
France
April 29, 1956 · Premiere · Cannes Film Festival, out of competition
May 19, 2026 · Digital · BD, Potemkine
Germany
July 1, 1956 · Premiere · Berlin (West)
Italy
September 5, 1956 · Premiere · Venise Film Festival
Russia
April 6, 1957
Russia
April 6, 1957 · Premiere · Leningrad
April 9, 1957 · Premiere · Leningrad
Sweden
April 27, 1959 · Theatrical
August 28, 1998 · Theatrical · Nypremiär
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