That image of the women's hair will be ingrained in my mind forever. I actually vomited. Night and Fog stands beside Baraka as one of the most powerful documentaries of all-time, one exposing the beauty of our world, and the other, this one, exposing the very heart of darkness, the very core of the deepest abyss imaginable.

Resnais summoned the courage to bring us the blackened, cold piece of cinema that every other filmmaker was afraid to bring us. There's nothing else to say; the film speaks for itself. I'm not even going to tell you that it's a must-see, because I wouldn't blame anyone that decides to pass this beast up... but it is, without question, one of the greatest films ever made.

i can't in good conscience rate the realities of human suffering. this is gonna stick with me for a while

"a concentration camp is built like a stadium or hotel: with contractors, estimates, bids and no doubt a bribe or two. no specific style—that's left to the imagination."

creates an almost surreal horror out of the mundane machinery of genocide.

Unspeakable, deafening horror, not only because of its succession of images, but in the juxtaposition between the visual impact and the musical undercurrent.

Let this film be the proof aliens need to realize that humans suck.

Damn that was painful to watch... Night and Fog illustrates the horrors of the Holocaust, the absolute evil, in a simple yet honest and unflinching way. It's a 30 minutes tour of disturbing images, poetic narration and uncomfortable music, and a film that keeps reiterating that this evil is impossible to accurately portray to match the realities faced by the victims. Words cannot simply describe how haunting and devastating some of these images are. And how powerful this film is. I honestly still cannot believe that these horrors actually happened and these images are real. Essential viewing.

It's always the bulldozers that get me. Always the bulldozers.

Among the best shorts ever directed, Nuit et Brouillard, which is also one of the best and most cruel and direct documentaries ever conceived by mankind, remains as a jewel of classic cinema. Alain Resnais's management of the topic during such terrible, racist and merciless periods of human history perfectly combines both beauty and true horror, and sucessfully opens the mind, eyes and soul of the spectator in the most amazing and genius way I have ever witnessed. Excellent.

100/100

The deservedly revered Night and Fog is a harrowing documentary. Assembled from footage filmed by French filmmaker Alain Resnais in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, it includes some of the most explicit depictions of the atrocities committed within the confines of Nazi concentration camps. 
It initially charts the rise of Nazi Germany before the film turns to the mass extermination inside the camps, where Resnais leaves much of the brutal footage to speak for itself. The material has been seen multiple times since the documentary's initial release, but it certainly has not lost any of its impactfulness. 
Hanns Eisler's unorthodox score intensifies the undertaking in striving to comprehend just what happened in the camps, and the compiled footage places a profound emphasis on memory over history. It is an extraordinary instance of the use of contradictory film music which accentuates an unforgettable portrayal of the camps, the subsequent life within them and the horror of man's brutal inhumanity.

There never will be enough words to describe human nature's cruelty. What Hitler did, was out of meaningless pettiness. Power strategy. Killing machine. Which isn't even one age enough after those events. The film may be only 33 minutes, but it shows enough devastation of what should be feared. Of how real of all that was. Of how it got away for so long. We may be left with it's relic, but it's footprints are everywhere. And it's gonna haunt us till mankind won't exist anymore. Another great title to the "Never gonna watch it ever again" list. For obvious reasons.

The Criterion Collection 2021
11/52

human life is worth nothing. to correlate the term “human” with natural kindness is downright ironical because we’re plain vile, always have been. to be human is not to be equated with feeling, the human condition is nothing to be desired. 

what this documentary does to you, words are insufficient. the visuals were horrifying, the narration gruesome. 

“we can pretend it only happened once, at a given time or space.” 

pretence is easy. let’s do that. i really wish i hadn’t watched this, too much to take when things already feel so heavy. but it is something that needs to be seen, heard and remembered. having this memory engrained in me will consciously haunt me but make me try to change what human means for me right now. it will serve as a reminder of the insignificance and fragility of life.

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I am a bit speechless after seeing these horror images, even after seeing so many documentaries about the Holocaust I am still shocked by the things that man is capable of.
 Not for the faint-hearted among us but it is necessary.
This documentary should be shown in every classroom all over the world, so that humanity will never forget what millions of people have endured in this black page of history.

gut wrenching cinema but this is not cinema. real life

It's been a while since I've been genuinely disturbed by a film. God.

If only I could believe that something as horrific as this would never happen again. If only...

"¿Entonces, quién es el responsable?

my god. if u ever need to watch something to fully understand the true extent of the horrors of the holocaust then watch this. its graphic, disturbing, blunt and moving. just watch it

É Cayrol mais do que nunca precisamos olhar para os lados.

I will never forget this.

Jesus FUCKING Christ. The image of the hair has to be one of the most profound images in cinema, and life, ever.

לכל השדים והרוחות😨
ממש אבל ממש עוצמתי.
לא-לבעלי-לב-חלש.