A very good first world war film is “A very long engagement”
it is in french with subtitles and covers some very
disturbing aspects of leadership and cowardice and how
this affected the people at home. Filmed in a almost
Expressionist style, the views of the french countyside
are just awesome, the trench fighting is horrendous.
It is long but well worth viewing as some of the family
and loved ones of the disgraced take revenge on the
higher unfeeling command structure in a number of mcabe
incidents. The main character finally takes the identy
of another dead outcast and survives the war but suffers
greatly for all he has been through .
Basically there were various shirkers,slackers, some
men who shot off their trigger fingers or attempted
suicide but were not successful. they were all gathered
together and marched out between the lines to be decimated.
But some of them lived as outcasts.
Really great film, must see!
“A Very Long Engagement” is available on youtube for the low, low price of $1.99.
I’ll try to locate it, sounds interesting. Thank you.