Verdun, visions d'histoire (Léon Poirier, 1928) DVDRip VOSE

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Director: Léon Poirier
Release Date: 9 November 1928 (France)
Genre: War

Cast
Albert Préjean ... The French Soldier
Jeanne Marie-Laurent ... The Mother
Suzanne Bianchetti ... The Wife
Hans Brausewetter ... The German Soldier
Thomy Bourdelle ... The German Officer
Berthe Jalabert
Maurice Schutz ... The Old Marshall Of The Emperor
Pierre Nay ... The Son
Jean Dehelly ... The Young Man
Daniel Mendaille ... The Husband
Antonin Artaud ... The Intellectuel
André Nox ... The Chaplain
Paul Amiot
José Davert ... The Old Farmer

Country: France
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Silent
Company: Compagnie Universelle Cinématographique

"It is a little difficult to render in writing the impression made by "Verdun, Visions, d'Histoire," the latest in the ever-lengthening series of war films. For one thing, military operations in the late war were much alike. The idea of M. Leon Poirier, who has designed and produced it, is to give a cinematographic representation of the classic battle which is almost documentary, relieved by the merest thread of story. At frequent intervals a map thrown on the screen shows the ebb and flow of the offensives of one side or the other. Pictures of all the big and famous incidents round Douaumont, the fort of Vaux, Thiaumont, the Bois de Caures, make up the bulk of the film. It is all admirably done. M. Poirier used some actual war films taken during the battle, and he made other parts of the picture on the spot, largely with the aid of ex-soldiers. He has carried out the "artificial" part of his work so well that it is difficult to distinguish it from the rest. The result is a drama often fascinating in the monotony of its grimness, inspiring equally admiration, horror and pity. While there is naturally a very definite appeal to French patriotism, there are few false notes and the Germans are presented without rancor. No names are given to the personages whose adventures, heroic or pathetic, compose the story of the film. These are merely indicated as "The French Soldier," "The German Soldier," "The Marshal of the Empire," "The Mother," "The Old Peasant" and such representative characters. From time to time in the battle scenes these recognizable individuals become visible to the spectator, and this helps to give a touch of artistic reality to a drama which, by its nature, tends to be drowned in anonymity."
By W.L. MIDDLETON.Published: January 13, 1929 (nytimes)

"Verdun, visions d'histoire" is a dramatised account of the key World War I battle in which French troops, fighting alone and often in desperate hand-to-hand combat, had to halt the German advance at all costs. The film uses newsreel footage, Poirier's own highly realistic reconstructions of the conflict (by far the largest element of the film) and some little dramatic scenes which are fairly perfunctory compared to "The Big Parade", say, but which nevertheless add a thread of personal interest to the events. The film is told from both sides and is surprisingly sympathetic to the German point of view, considering when it was made. Poirier's pacifist stance is revealed in several moments, notably in one scene when two angels descend onto the battlefield and extract the souls of two soldiers, one German and one French, and place them together on a stretcher which they carry up to heaven.
The re-enacted battle sequences, for which Poirier used original locations and even some of the surviving combatants, place the viewer in the midst of the horror, crawling across no-man's-land, cowering in fox-holes, or being blown apart in trenches. In fact, when you watch documentary programmes with "historical" footage of trench warfare, chances are it came from this film, made 10 years after the battle. (Most actual newsreel footage of the time shows lines of smiling troops marching off to battle but avoids depicting the carnage of war, for obvious propaganda reasons.)
In 1931, a re-edited sound version, "Verdun, souvenirs d'histoire" was released with some re-shot scenes using different actors. A restoration of the best existing print of the original silent version (stolen from France by the Nazis, then grabbed by the Russians at the end of the war) has recently been issued in an English-friendly French DVD edition."
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