The battalion signallers form up in the courtyard and practise their semaphore. A company on parade fixes bayonets and is inspected by its company officer, following which the men march off. Men pract...
A young lady sits at her breakfast table drinking tea and reading the morning paper. She reads of a heavy fine imposed on someone caught watering nursery milk, and conjures up a vision of a sick child...
An unfinished stable at the hospital, "will you help the RSPCA to complete it ?". A group of three horses. A wounded horse being attended to at a mobile veterinary section near the front. Wounded hors...
The British reverse their Mark V Male tanks into a courtyard in the centre of the city, to the interest of the civilian crowd. The men perform maintenance on their tanks, while soldiers and armed Germ...
Film fragment of an Australian convoy of wounded on mule-drawn litters, led by a mule-drawn ambulance, making its way over dusty hills, possibly Palestine, 1916-1918.
A semi-posed group of Greek soldiers watches the camera in the centre of the town. The main post office is shown, guarded by Allied troops of varying nationalities, mainly French.
Newsreel item o...
A Serbian officer scans the distance with binoculars as the French gunners set the fuses on their field gun's shells and fire a round. (The caption says the gun is a 75mm, but it appears to be an obso...
The men prepare to fire the gun, elevating the barrel. Then they are shown posed for the camera standing on and around the gun.
American gunners with a French 400mm railway gun, probably near Mai...
Wide shot of a hospital corridor. Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) stands in the middle of the corridor clasping hands with Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič), whose other arm...
Medium shot of several men sitting around a table with a half loaf of bread and a carafe of water. On the left sits Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) with a bandaged neck. To the right sit Vyskočil (...
Wide shot of a corridor. Standing in front of the door to Dr. Šrámek's office are Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) and Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) flanked by Austrian military guards...
View of an office. A colonel of the Austrian army (actor: Jaroslav Marvan) and Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) are standing at a desk. Behind Šrámek are two military guards (on the right, a...
Wide shot of an office. Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) is sitting at a desk and pointing at another doctor standing on the opposite side of the desk. Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is st...
Wide shot of a corridor and a door with a sign indicating "MUDr. Fr. Šrámek." Standing in front of the door are nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František ...
Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is lying on a hospital bed in the foreground. Three figures are standing over him: Nurse Mathilde (actor: Adina Mandlová) on the left, and doctors Šrám...
View of a hospital room. In the centre of the image, cadet Severa (actor: Stanislav Strnad) is lying on a bed and hugging his mother (actress: Marie Ptáková), who is sitting next to him. Rjepkin is ...
List of costumes and stage properties
Contest for the music to the film
Conditions of screening in Bio Fenix in Prague