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, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2003]

Format: DVD; Dolby digital mono. : 1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes: Based on the book Tragédie de la déportation, 1940-1945 / by Olga Wormser and Henri Michel.
Special features: excerpt from interview with Alan Resnais; optional isolated music track; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate; essay about composer Hanns Eisler by Russell Lack; crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie.
Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 1955.

Languages: French
Subtitles: English
Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Cast: Narrator, Michel Bouquet.

Crew: Directors of photography, Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Viernet; music, Hanns Eisler.

Contributors: Alain Resnais (Director), Anatole Dauman (Producer), Edouard Muszka (Producer), Hanns Eisler (Composer), Henri Michel (Author), Jean Cayrol (Author), Michel Bouquet (Narrator), Olga Wormser-Migot (), Philippe Lifchitz (Producer), Samy Halfon (Producer)

Subject(s):	World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps.
	Concentration camps -- Germany.
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
	Video recordings for the hearing impaired.