Story of the Unknown Soldier
Release Date: 1932-01-01
Language: FR
Country: 🇧🇪 BE
Rating:
⭐ 7.7 / 10
( 3 votes )
Runtime: 11m
Built from 1928 newsreels—the year 60 nations vowed to outlaw war—Storck’s razor-edged montage mocks the era’s self-congratulation by cross-cutting speeches and parades with portents of renewed violence: nationalism, colonial repression, police brutality. Slow-motion collapsing chimneys and the exhumation of an “unknown soldier” give the satire its sting.
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Cast
Benito Mussolini
Himself (archive footage)
Philippe Pétain
Himself (archive footage)
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Himself (archive footage)
