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APOCALYPSE la 1ère Guerre mondiale

A partir du 18 mars 2014 sur France 2

 

Après les diffusions d’Apocalypse la 2ème Guerre mondiale et d’Apocalypse Hitler, France 2 propose une nouvelle fois à ses téléspectateurs de rentrer dans une période historique incontournable : la Première Guerre mondiale.

After the showing of the Apocalypse of the 2nd World War and Hitler’s Apocalypse, France 2 TV propose for the first time to its viewers to return to a historically impossible period: the First World War.

Réalisé par Daniel Costelle, historien et écrivain et par Isabelle Clarke, réalisatrice, cette série documentaire s’adresse à un large public, toutes générations confondues. Leur travail renouvelle, réactualise, modernise et dépoussière des images et vidéos datant de l’époque et pour la plupart récupérées auprès de particuliers. Un résultat révélant des images jusqu’à lors inconnues du grand public. Après avoir mis en scène Apocalypse, la 2ème Guerre mondiale, la série historique la plus regardée au monde, et Apocalypse Hitler, élue ” Meilleure série documentaire d’archives ” par History Makers, Isabelle Clarke et Daniel Costelle ont recréé un spectacle choc en cinq épisodes, pour transmettre aux jeunes générations la mémoire de cette folie meurtrière dans le cadre du centenaire du 1er conflit mondial.

Written by the historian and writer Daniel Costelle, and directed by Isabelle Clarke, this documentary series addresses to the public at large, confusions  that abounded through all generations. Their work of renewal, reshowing, modernising, and dusting down the images and video, dating from the time, and for the most part rediscovering and comparing many particulars. The result reveals images previously unknown to the general public. After the very popular 2nd World War documentaries mentioned above, the history makers  Isabelle Clarke et Daniel Costelle have recreated an intense spectacle in five episodes, to be shown to younger generations the memories of the folly of murder in the framework of of a century from the 1st world conflict.

 

Synopsis

Le sacrifice d’une génération entière aurait-il pu être évité ? Comment un conflit aussi cruel et total a-t-il été possible ? Comment les hommes et les femmes ont-ils pu supporter cette horreur pendant quatre longues années ?

Could the sacrifice of a whole generation been avoided? How could the cruelty of the conflict been possible? How did the men and women put up with this horror for four long years?

La série documentaire Apocalypse, la 1ère Guerre mondiale répond à ces questions fondamentales par une approche stratégique et globale, mais aussi et surtout par un regard intime et sensible, à hauteur d’homme.

The documentary series Apocalypse, the 1st World War answers the fundamental questions in a global strategic way but also above that takes a look at the human sensitivities of a better people.

Réalisée à partir de plus de 500 heures d’archives cinématographiques, souvent inédites et mises en couleur, elle emmène les téléspectateurs sur les champs de batailles, dans la tête des gouvernants et des soldats, mais aussi dans le quotidien des civils à l’arrière. Des tranchées du nord de la France aux fronts moins connus de Russie, de Serbie, de Turquie ou de Palestine, cette série regroupe des millions de soldats, venus des cinq continents, blessés dans leur chair ou dans leur esprit.

Starting with 500 hours of cinematography archives, often un-shown and put into colour, taken by photographers on the battle fields, at the government summits and soldiers leaders, but also in the daily lives of the the civilians behind the scenes. From the trenches of northern France to the less known fronts  of Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Palestine, this series brings together the millions of soldiers, from five continents, injured in flesh and their spirit.  

Une narration qui porte les voix, les souvenirs, l’expérience de ces hommes et femmes afin de mieux comprendre ce qui a conduit ” le monde d’hier ” à l’apocalypse.

The narration which carries the voices, the memories, the experiences of these men and women to better understand what drove the “the world of yesterday” to the Apocalypse.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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