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1950s |
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The 400 Blows, Directed by François Truffaut
All About Eve, Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Diary of a Country Priest, Directed by Robert Bresson
Elevator to the Gallows, Directed by Louis Malle
Hiroshima Mon Amour, Directed by Alain Resnais
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Directed by Don Siegel
Night and Fog, Directed by Alain Resnais
Nights of Cabiria, Directed by Federico Fellini
The Night of the Hunter, Directed by Charles Laughton
On the Waterfront, Directed by Elia Kazan
Pickpocket, Directed by Robert Bresson
The Seven Samurai, Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Some Like It Hot, Directed by Billy Wilder
Touch of Evil, Directed by Orson Welles |
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Night and Fog, Directed by Alain Resnais
Argos Films, 1955 (France)
Written and Narrated by: Jean Cayrol
Two shades of evil. Black and white images of hell on earth. . . .
Narrator (Jean Cayrol): The crematorium is no longer in use. The devices of the Nazis are out of date. Nine million dead haunt this landscape. Who is on the lookout from this strange tower to warn us of the coming of new executioners? Are their faces really different from our own? Somewhere among us, there are lucky Kapos, reinstated officers, and unknown informers. There are those who refused to believe this, or believed it only from time to time. And there are those of us who sincerely look upon the ruins today, as if the old concentration camp monster were dead and buried beneath them. Those who pretend to take hope again as the image fades, as though there were a cure for the plague of these camps. Those of us who pretend to believe that all this happened only once, at a certain time and in a certain place, and those who refuse to see, who do not hear the cry to the end of time.
Juxtaposed with silence.
(Silence.)
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