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Call Number: DVD 940.547 Ni
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
Special features : crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie ; optional isolated music track ; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from "Les Etoiles du cinema (1994). In accompanying leaflet: information about the composer, Hanns Eisler, by Russell Lack ; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate.
Credits -- Building the camps -- "Another planet" -- "Man is resilient" -- Extermination -- "Who is responsible?" -- Color bars.
Narrator, Michel Bouquet.
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
DVD; region 1; full screen presentation (1.33:1); Dolby 5.1; Dolby digital mono; high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Library Journal ReviewSummary / Annotation
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
EXCELLENT HOLOCAUST DOC. submitted by btmiller on June 24, 2007, 3:19pm If you are interest in the holocaust this is a must see Documentary
Holocaust Documnetary submitted by johnnyringo on July 5, 2013, 9:49am Filmed in 1955, haunting.
SERIES
Criterion collection
197.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
French dialogue, English subtitles ; leaflet in English.
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003], c1955.
Year Published: 1955
Description: 1 videodisc (32 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded leaf.
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0780026942
9780780026940
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998.
Halfon, Samy.
Lifchitz, Philippe.
Cayrol, Jean.
Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014.
Cloquet, Ghislain.
Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.
Bouquet, Michel.
Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962.
Muszka, Edouard.
Como Films.
Argos Films.
Cocinor (Firm)
Janus Films.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Buildings.
Majdanek (Concentration camp) -- Buildings.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Concentration camps -- Europe.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
Drame.
Foreign language films -- French.
Short films.
Foreign films -- France.
Documentary films.