The general area of Ypres. Filmed from just outside the town itself, shells falling on buildings on the outskirts. Two Mark V tanks, one Male, one Female, both carrying soldiers, move over open countr...
The town is shown from a distance, then in close-up. The suburbs are burnt out and deserted. The main square is relatively undamaged. The collegiate church and the Church of Saint Martin show consider...
The canals running through the town are undamaged but the main girder bridge has been brought down. British soldiers of II Corps wait in the main square.Civilians watch while the British, of 40th Divi...
The map, in stop-frame action, shows the German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914, followed by a more detailed version of the Allied advance to victory between July and November 1918. The Allied ...
The body of Marshal Foch lies in state at the Invalides. King Albert of Belgium and then a crowd of people file past to pay their last respects. For the procession the streets are lined with soldiers....
(Reel 1) It is 1914 and the outbreak of the war. Mr Smith, a prosperous businessman, is starting to lose staff who have volunteered for the Army and he refuses women replacements. He also prevents his...
Medium shot of Thornycroft V Class destroyer steaming at speed. Medium long shot off port quarter of two battleships - the nearest is HMS Canada preceded by an Iron Duke flying a kite balloon. Long sh...
(Reel 1) Opening pan across fleet anchorage (note HMS Neptune). The King is seen onboard a succession of battleships, watching marchpasts of the crews - HMS Queen Elizabeth (Colossus Class in backgrou...
Medium shot of nurses Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) and Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) standing by a table in a room. Mathilde has a paletot over her shoulders and is staring fixedly s...
Medium close-up of Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) in profile and the cadet Severa (actor: Stanislav Strnad), who is lying on a hospital bed.
Medium close-up of Nurse Tonička (Truda Grosslichtová) and Corporal Bartoněk (Jiří Vondrovič) standing in a corridor. They are smiling at one another and she is touching his bandaged hand.
Medium shot of an Austrian officer and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) looking at each other. The man is smoking a cigarette. Another soldier is visible behind them. In the left background i...
Several Austrian soldiers are moving about in front of a standing train. Several of the soldiers are carrying cargo. Other soldiers are looking out of the windows and open doors of the train.
Medium shot of Toman's wife Lída (actress: Marie Rosůlková), his son Vláďa (actor: Zdeněk Záhorský), and Dr, Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), who is shaking Vláďa's hand. Vláďa is wea...
Medium shot of Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) in profile and nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová).
Medium close-up of Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) sleeping on a bed and First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František Kreuzmann) in pyjamas leaning over him.
List of costumes and stage properties
Contest for the music to the film
Conditions of screening in Bio Fenix in Prague