The Symphony Orchestra at Massy’s Opera

Program

D’une guerre à l’autre (1914-1945) – film-concert “From one war to another”

The film tackles the drift of some young people towards radicalism, through the eyes of ordinary men and women.

Centred on Verdun and Auschwitz, this production exposes the mechanisms that lead societies towards fanaticism, and highlights the processes of dehumanisation that have permeated modern societies, from the annihilation of soldiers on the battlefield to the extermination of civilians in death camps.
Based on three documentaries by Serge de Sampigny: *Verdun, ils ne passeront pas*, *Mussolini, le premier fasciste* and *Dans la tête des SS*. Actress Marilou Aussilloux and actor Julien Frison, of the Comédie-Française, read letters written between 1914 and 1945 by young French, Belgian, German, Spanish and Italian people.

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