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kathulu
"Je ne suis pas responsable"As are the words of the SS officers in the post-war trials, depicted here, in this painful, true, terrific documentary, narrated by Jean Cayrol, French poet and camp survivor.
My French is shabby, and I saw this film without subtitles. But seeing it like this gave me a powerful jolt to the chest none the less, in a way like the dialogue-less "Koyaanisqatsi" has the ability to do. Except this 34 minute documentary is visceral. It depicts the revolting, unimaginable, heinous crimes beyond human comprehension, committed in the German concentration camps during WWII. It spares no expense and ruthlessly shows you everything you don't want to see.
As the movie starts with its "peaceful landscape of a meadow", I am immediately transported back to when I visited Auschwitz myself more than 10 years ago, fully prepared, and yet absolutely not prepared at all for what I was about to see.
The music is eerily unsettling and nothing what so ever alike the pathos and melodrama we are used to today, most famously, of course, almost forced upon us by John Williams in "Schindler's List." I might be one of the biggest John Williams fans in the world, but a topic like the Holocaust is not one that needs orchestral support to be heard and understood.
This movie must be seen just like any war memorial must be visited. It will hurt, it will make you sick, and it is necessary.
vibranium
https://vimeo.com/189672641(linked Feb 2018, English subtitles)
Emiam
8/10Wow! Great film. Short and effective. I wonder from where they have managed to collect b/w shocking film material from 11 years earlier, which I have never - ever - before seen, in any other documentary?
Really good, but probably not better than the most important movie in history about the holocaust - the 8 hours long Shoah:
https://www.svt.se/dox/shoah/
Bemkret
Link (july 2017):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyzWWcmLW5Q
Typically Thomas
The most powerful film about the Holocaust I've ever seen. How can a human, of any kind, believe that this horrid kind of slaughter is justified. No man believes himself to be evil, and we all rationalize our darkest deeds. How can anyone do so while holding several removed heads at once? I am shocked by this movie. Really important film!swhaze
I really appreciate this film's intention and purpose. It is something that everyone should probably see at least once. I honestly don't think I have ever been exposed to a short film that is so raw, yet tastefully and stunningly done. With that said, some of those images will probably haunt me for the remainder of my life.SiH13
Needed some r/eyebleach after this oneWindill
Disturbing.CarcamanoFerreto
A brief documentary, a collection of chilling images that will make you wonder: "how could they had done such thing?"It is one of those films that everyone should watch and question what are the limits of human perversity.
Powerful, disturbing and historically important. Nuit et brouillard is a necessary film.
ClassicLady
Seeing the faces of people I'd only known before as "the masses" was shocking and eye opening. It is horrible how no one is or can be blamed for this atrocity. Although blame won't make it better or bring those people back. It is a horrible, dark period in human history that will live with us forever. This movie reminds us we should never underestimate the evil lurking in man.Punisher
Not for the faint-hearted!Dieguito
Shocking!mabu mabu
Much much overratedTimec
It's probably considered a documentary masterpiece because of the fact that it manages to do in 30 minutes what few films (documentary or fiction) are able to do in four or five (or seven) times that length - there's a lot to be said for brevity, and this film manages to pack an enormous amount of power into its time length and never seems like it's misrepresenting or lessening the true horrors of the Holocaust.It may also have to do with the fact that it's so very concise - it doesn't try to tackle the entirety of the Nazi machine, and it's better off for it. One still comes away with an incredibly clear view of how horrible human beings can be.
There have been a lot of Holocaust films made since, but few have had its power or immediacy. In 55 years of Holocaust filmmaking since, only "Shoah" has surpassed it.
Unlike so many other films on this important subject, it doesn't cop out. It doesn't interject personal stories or John Williams-esque scores - it simply relies on the inherent horror and tragedy of the subject to make us see and to make us feel. It's not "just not another Holocaust film" - I use that phrase not to suggest that the Holocaust itself could ever be a tired subject, but merely to point out that a lot of filmmakers seem to choose the subject as a shortcut to accomplish their goal of making an Important Film. They bombard us with overly sentimental, overly manipulative stories that are weirdly comforting to the audience – even as they present us with absolute horror they provide a nice emotional catharsis, cause us to think “Oh, it could never happen again” and then the audience feels better after the movie than they did before it started. That’s why so many people can now see a preview for the next Holocaust film and roll their eyes at yet another Oscar-bait film about a Very Important Subject – we’ve become inured to what should always be a raw and visceral reminder of man’s inhumanity.
But “Night and Fog” is different. It distinguishes itself by refusing to give us any comfort, by refusing to rely on cheap emotionalism. Its relentless narrative and carefully selected footage builds to a work of enormous, overwhelming resonance and power. It doesn’t offer comfort, it doesn’t allow us to distance ourselves from what we are seeing – it masterfully combines all the elements of the documentary form to blur the line between past and present, and to move and horrify even the most inured viewers.
So yeah - that's what makes it a documentary masterpiece. That's what makes it one of the two most visceral, groundbreaking, horrifying accounts of one of mankind's greatest atrocities.
Husky
An important subject, but I don't see why this would be a documentary masterpiece. [x2]Showing items 1 – 15 of 27