Les Désastres de la guerre

Section: Retros & Focus / Focus The Photographed Cinema - Freeze-frames

From a series of etchings engraved by Goya between 1810 and 1820, the film describes the atrocity of the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, and, suddenly, the horror of all wars.

"Pierre Kast, remaining faithful to Goya, gave these infernal visions a rhythmic extension by means of the rigor of editing. Les Désastres de la guerre is the irrepressible march of a people towards nothingness."

(François Porcile, musician)

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