| Description |
1 online resource (1 streaming video file (10 min.)) |
| Series |
NFB.ca |
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NFB.ca
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| Summary |
A tribute to the combatants in the First World War, this film traces the conflict through the war diary and private letters of five Canadian soldiers and a nurse. Hearing them, the listener detects between the lines an unspoken horror censored by war and propriety. The film mingles war footage, historical photos and readings of excerpts from the diary and letters. The directorial talent of Claude Guilmain breathes life into these 90-year-old documents and accompanying archival images so that we experience the human face and heart of the conflict. For the educational sector, five documentary vignettes have been drawn from the film: Nurses at the Front, The Officer's Role, The Life of the Soldier, Faith and Hope and The Trenches, each with further information on its particular subject |
| Credits |
Director/writer/researcher/script translator, Claude Guilmain ; actor, Paul Gross, Joe Dinicol, Jean Yoon, Philip Graeme, Dylan Roberts, Colm Feore, Steve Baker, Paul Fauteux, Jordon Pettle ; additional voice, Petra Valier, Manfred Becker, Doïna Harap, Alex Strijevsky ; research advisor, Michel Litalien ; script consultant, Monique Proulx ; visual advisor, Luc Bourdon ; director of photography, François Dagenais ; production manager, Lara Popic ; editing, Peter Vinet ; sound editing/sound design, Daniel Toussaint ; sound editing - assistance, Luc Raymond ; foley, Stéphane Cadotte ; original music/musician, Claude Naubert ; musician, Renée-Paule Gauthier, Andréa Armijo-Fortin, David Thies-Thompson, Carole Sirois ; on-line editing, Françoise Laprise ; re-recording, Serge Boivin ; titles, Gaspard Gaudreau, Philippe Raymond ; marketing manager, Julie Arseneault ; marketing assistant, Karine Sévigny ; administrator, Alexandrine Torres de Figueiredo ; administrative assistant, Vanessa Emam ; technical coordinator, Micheline Faubert ; producer, Anne-Marie Rocher ; executive producer, Jacques Turgeon ; partnerships, Liliane Tremblay |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Trench warfare
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Canadian
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Intrenchments.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Personal narratives
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
National Film Board of Canada.
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