Wars, if they are long and destructive enough, can be traumatic even for the winning side. This is the conclusion you may get if you watch *J’accuse*, 1919 French silent film directed by Abel Gance, known as the first grand film to deal with First World War and often referenced as the first one do so with anti-war stance. The plot begins in a village in Provence, at the south of France in Summer of 1914. Protagonist…
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J'accuse
1919
J'accuse is a 1919 French silent film directed by Abel Gance. It juxtaposes a romantic drama with the background of the horrors of World War I, and it is sometimes described as a pacifist or anti-war film. Work on the film began in 1918, and some scenes were filmed on real battlefields. The film's powerful depiction of wartime suffering, particularly its climactic sequence of the "return of the dead", made it an…
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