Version : French
Duration : 12'
Format : 35 mm - 16 mm. - Béta Digit. - Mpeg4
Black & white
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country
France
With
Commentaire dit par Jean SERVAIS
Music
René CLOEREC
Picture
Mario MARRET, Gérard PY
Stage set
Algeria
Prize list
1° Premio Targa d’Oro et Diplôme d’Honneur - Instituto Internazionale per la Cinematografia educativa e scientifica - 1962
Archive footage
- Ships destroyed in Tunisia, Expeditionary corps,
- Landing in Provence, Warships in Naples harbour, Soldiers disembarking from a ship, Wounded soldiers in Algeria, Attacks on a fedayeen patrol and a convoy, Arrival of wounded in an ambulance in Algiers,
- Blood donations in a transfusion centre,
- Fire hoses, Firefighter evacuating casualties after a natural disaster, Evacuation of a casualty by plane,
- Auscultation of a woman on dialysis, Heart surgery
- Childbirth, Biologist handling vials of blood
- Blood bank and blood refrigeration tanks. Poster.
“Blood … by the drop, by the litre, by the tonne … It’s the future that bleeds. The future, for those who have reached the edge of the worst, is the blood of others.
People have been fighting around the Mediterranean for five thousand years. The causes change, … the uniforms, the partners and even the names of the battles.
Ten litres are enough to sustain a life, while a normal man has only seven. Everything is manufactured, except a drop of blood. No one has ever been able to invent it.
Every day, they are there. This is, at any rate, one of the places where, without reservation, they agree to sit next to each other… Here, they all mix their blood, which they are capable of losing or causing to be lost an hour before, an hour after, against each other…” (Extracts from the commentary)
