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Night And Fog (Nuit Et Brouillard) released by Nouveaux Pictures on 24th January 2005 is Alain Resnais' astounding documentary on the Holocaust.

Commissioned by the French Committee for the History of the Second World War, it remains one of the most respected ever made. The film takes it's title from Hitler's decree that anyone who 'endangered Germany's security' was to vanish with out trace (in the) night and fog' of the third Reich. It also described those prisoners due for extermination within three months of their arrival at a concentration camp.

A harrowing look at concentration camps and The Holocaust, it carefully juxtaposes documentary footage shoot in black and white by the Allied troops who liberate the camps with contemporary colour footage of a tour of the ruins of Auschwitz in the 50's. The images that Resnais presents are so haunting that any attempt to describe them in words is almost futile. How does one comment on footage chronicling the German Army executing the 'logic' of the 'Final Solution'.

Primo Levi wrote in his acclaimed book 'If this is a Man'- "It happened therefore it can happen again" and the poetic refrain of the narrator of 'Night and Fog'- "who is responsible", forces us to confront the Holocaust as a continuing potentiality. A measure of the impact of this outstanding, heart wrenching and thought-provoking film came in May 1990 when following a wave of attacks on Jewish cemeteries in France, all five national channels simultaneously postponed their schedules to transmit 'Night And Fog". Lest we forget...