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

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

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.

I stand by what I've already said. Amazing.

We were watching in this in class and you could've heard a pin drop. Devastating, but important. I was NOT willing to tackle the rest of the day after this.

Watching this I could not tell what was original footage vs. what was made. I couldn't tell if any of it was real. I couldn't tell if all of it was real. That's a testement to both the skill of Resnais and the horror of Nazi Germany. The reason this topic is used so much in film, literature and art is because it truly the most horrific thing to be seem in modern history. It is stomach turning, but it is hard to avert your eyes. There is no sense to be made from it, but Alain manages to make a film from it that makes perfect sense.

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The most painful documentation on the holocaust I have ever seen. It doesn’t feel shocking exactly (as in cheaply playing off of shocking imagery, although there is plenty of it), more than an honest portrayal of unfathomable horrors. And of course it’s dwellings on human evil is very relevant in today’s political environment.

An timeless documentary that will stay with you for a long time.

Wow. Very disturbing for the 1950s, but relates perfectly the atrocity of the second World War. This documentary has a very beautiful and poetic voiceover. Plus, the use of archive images adds a very realistic touch to the awful things that happened in these concentration camps.