Under the banners
Director Henry Colomer
Countries
Duration 45 min
Synopsis
"Under the banners" that symbolized the nationalization of the masses, millions of men slaughtered one another during the first world war. Flags, liturgical clothing, uniforms, suits, swaddling clothes, sheets, bandages, shrouds... Working from a mountain of archives, Under the Banners, is a look back on the first decades of the twentieth century, showing men and women in relationship to the cloth, out of which their days and nights were woven, and which was the very stuff of their values and beliefs.
"Under the banners" that symbolized the nationalization of the masses, millions of men slaughtered one another during the first world war. Flags, liturgical clothing, uniforms, suits, swaddling clothes, sheets, bandages, shrouds... Working from a mountain of archives, Under the Banners, is a look back on the first decades of the twentieth century, showing men and women in relationship to the cloth, out of which their days and nights were woven, and which was the very stuff of their values and beliefs.