FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Alain Resnais - Night And Fog 

Never again! (Please do not misuse this post for anti-Semitic posts and nonsense). On 9.11.38 Nazi gangs rampaged through the streets of Berlin. The so-called Reich Pogrom Night. Over 90 years old he became. His career lasted over six decades and he always had his finger on the pulse of his time: Alain Resnais. He became famous in 1955 with this documentary about the German concentration camps. Even today my father tells me how they showed Night And Fog at the film club. Some long-time members resigned as a result. They felt attacked by the young "Beatnicks" and their disrespectful films. Especially in Germany of the 50s Night And Fog must have been a brutal experience. And it still works today! Resnais was one of the very first to take up the subject of Nazi concentration camps. He invented a new technique to combine black and white images from the archives with color images of the abandoned camps. Right at the beginning we lose the ground under our feet. A supposedly safe room turns into a dangerous one. Crash. Below an idyllic landscape a barbed wire comes to light. Finally this barbed wire is the foreground. If we previously felt a feeling of satisfaction, this is now lost. The narrator comments: "A concentration camp is built like any stadium or a hotel". Even a church can lead to a concentration camp. We understand: Any place can be charged with hate and anger and xenophobia. In the following there will be nothing else but the Holocaust. No way to distract our gaze. The catastrophe becomes tangible and accompanies us through the montage of the film until the present day: "Are their faces really so different than ours?