ABSTRACT
Night and Fog is a documentary film made in 1955. Its aim was to exhibit to the world the horrors and inhumanity that took place in the concentration camps, especially in the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek. It was made up of contemporary colour landscape scenes of the places of horror, contrasted by black-and-white archive film footage and still photography of the real horror that happened in those places. The commentary was written by Jean Cayrol, a survivor of a concentration camp himself, and the music was composed by Austrian-born Hanns Eisler. Jean Cayrol, whose poem collection book, Nuit et Brouillard inspired the film, was himself a Nazi camp prisoner at Gusen concentration camp. In the full version of the film all elements work interchangeably; sometimes in unison, some other times in counterpoint, while in the no-voiceover version music takes the lead by connecting the realities.
