Verdun, Looking At History (1928) On DVD

Actor:           Albert Préjean, Jeanne Marie-Laurent, Suzanne Bianchetti                                                                                                                
Director:      Léon Poirier
Genre:          Documentry
Year:             1929
Studio:          Kino International
Length:         151
Released:    November 4, 2014
Rating:          Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:         DVD
Misc:              NTSC, Black & White
Language:    French
Subtitles  :    English

DESCRIPTION:

In order to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the end of World War I, Léon Poirier recreated the battle of Verdun and inscribed in history the lives of symbolic characters from both sides of the front. Verdun, Looking at History was edited in three distinct parts (Might, Hell and Fate) and is an epic film of great emotional strength dedicated to "all the martyrs of the ugliest human passion that is war". Léon Poirier's realistic masterpiece undoubtedly compares with King Vidor's The Big Parade and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front.