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Die Hölle von Verdun (2007)

Die Hölle von Verdun (2007)

Documentary
Release Date: 2007, June 15
Directors: Oliver Halmburger, Stefan Brauburger
Countries: Germany
Production: Loopfilm, ZDF, ARTE
Cast: Johannes Oliver Hamm, Birgitta Assheuer, Daniel Werner, Edward Kalisz, Markus Baumeister, Helmut Winkelmann, Peter Stock, Agnieszka Han, Jarosław Kostrzewa, Rolf Schult, Olaf Renoldi, Henrik van Ypsilon

Overview:

In 1916, the name of the French fortress town of Verdun came to symbolize the greatest battle of attrition of all time - a portent of mass death on the battlefields of the 20th century. Based on selected individual fates, the film "The Hell of Verdun" tells the story of a military inferno in which people were regarded as material, not as individuals. More than 700,000 soldiers, German and French, died, were wounded or remained missing, without the course of the front changing significantly.