Release Date

01 Jan, 1932

Runtime

00:11: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

For Histoire du soldat inconnu (Story of the Unknown Soldier) Storck watched newsreels for the whole of 1928, the year when 60 nations signed a pact outlawing war, and juxtaposed this heart-warming utopia with the signs of a forthcoming conflict (this was in 1932) – burgeoning nationalism, police brutality, excessive colonialism, bellicose politics. Ferocious editing sarcastically juxtaposes these good intentions with the political farce of speeches and parades, all to the tune of factory chimneys collapsing in slow motion and the exhumed body of an “unknown soldier”. —cinematek.be

Original Title

Histoire du soldat inconnu

Photos

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Actors

Benito Mussolini

Philippe Pétain

Czar Nicholas II of Russia

Crew

Henri Storck