Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Sep 27th  
J'Accuse***

(Fra 1919)

Two rivals in love for the same woman go to fight in the trenches; when she is raped by the enemy, her brutish husband dies in action and her lover goes mad, and witnesses the dead soldiers rising from their graves to see if their sacrifice has been worth it.
Gance's great anti-war polemic, not as dated and more deeply felt than Civilization, with events that France was still recovering physically and emotionally from (including brief footage from the actual battlefields.)

Written and Directed by: Abel Gance.
Producer: Charles Pathe.
Starring: Romuald Joube, Maryse Dauvray, Severin-Mars, Maxime Desjardins, Mancini, Angele Guys.
Photography: Marc Bujard, Leonce-Henri Burel, Maurice Foster.


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