1 videodisc (32 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical monaural rda
video file DVD video rda
Documentary films lcgft
System Details
DVD.
Language
French dialogue; English subtitles.
Note
Title from sell sheet.
Aspect ratio (1.37:1).
Summary
Filmed in 1955 at Auschwitz, Alain Resnais combines color footage with black and white newsreels and stills to tell the story of not just the Holocaust, but the horror of man's brutal inhumanity.
Note
Special features: excerpt from a 1994 audio interview with director Alain Resnais; New interview with documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer; Face aux fantômes, a ninety-nine-minute 2009 documentary featuring historian Sylvie Lindeperg that explores the French memory of the Holocaust and the controversy surrounding the film's release; essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe.