Editing Shadows and Fog (section)

{{Short description|1991 film by Woody Allen}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox film
| name           = Shadows and Fog
| image          = Shadows and fog.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Woody Allen]]
| producer       = [[Robert Greenhut]]<br />[[Charles Joffe]] <small>(executive)</small><br />Jack Rollins <small>(executive)</small>
| writer         = Woody Allen
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* Woody Allen
* [[Kathy Bates]]
* [[John Cusack]]
* [[Mia Farrow]]
* [[Jodie Foster]]
* [[Fred Gwynne]]
* [[Julie Kavner]]
* [[Madonna]]
* [[John Malkovich]]
* [[Kenneth Mars]]
* [[Kate Nelligan]]
* [[Donald Pleasence]]
* [[Lily Tomlin]]
}}
| music          = 
| cinematography = [[Carlo Di Palma]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Howe |first1=Desson |title="Shadows and Fog" (PG-13) |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/shadowsandfogpg13howe_a0aeb1.htm |access-date=31 May 2020 |work=www.washingtonpost.com |date=March 20, 1992 |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925093223/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/shadowsandfogpg13howe_a0aeb1.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
| editing        = [[Susan E. Morse]]
| studio         = [[Orion Pictures]]
| distributor    = {{Plainlist|
* Orion Pictures (United States)
* [[Columbia Pictures]] (International)<ref>{{cite web|title=Shadows and Fog (1992)|website=[[BBFC]]|access-date=9 January 2022|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/shadows-and-fog-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmjy3ntm}}</ref>
}}
| released       = {{Film date|1991|12|05|ref1=<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105378/releaseinfo "Release dates for ''Shadows and Fog''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908091024/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105378/releaseinfo |date=2019-09-08 }}. ''[[Internet Movie Database]]''. Retrieved July 19, 2011.</ref>}}
| runtime        = 85 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $14 million
| gross          = $2,735,731
}}

'''''Shadows and Fog''''' is a 1991 American [[black-and-white]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Woody Allen]] and based on his one-act play ''[[Death (play)|Death]]'' (1975).  It stars Allen, [[Mia Farrow]], [[John Malkovich]], [[Kathy Bates]], [[David Ogden Stiers]], [[Jodie Foster]], [[Donald Pleasence]], [[Lily Tomlin]], [[John Cusack]], [[Madonna]], and [[Kenneth Mars]]. It was filmed on a {{convert|26000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} set at [[Kaufman Astoria Studios]], which was the biggest set ever built in New York. It was also Allen's last film for [[Orion Pictures]].

''Shadows and Fog'' is an homage to [[German expressionist cinema|German Expressionist]] filmmakers [[Fritz Lang]], [[G. W. Pabst]] and [[F. W. Murnau]] in its visual presentation, and to the writer [[Franz Kafka]] in theme. Critical reception of the film was generally mixed.