Abel Gance – J’accuse! AKA I Accuse! (1919)
Edith, a young French woman, is in love with a poet but is forced by her father into a marriage with a much older man. Edith is captured by the Germans and endures multiple rapes that result in her becoming pregnant. Edith’s husband initially thinks that the poet is the father of her child, and the story ends in tragedy with both men seeing action in the trenches.
“J’accuse” is a story set against the backdrop of World War I that is considered one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. Gance, who had served briefly in the military during World War I, decided to return to active service in 1919 in order to film real battle scenes to include in the project. The film was reedited and shortened for peacetime reissue in 1922, and has not been available since in its original form.
Lobster Films Studios, Paris, working in collaboration with Netherlands Filmmuseum have culled materials from the Lobster Collection, the Czech archive in Prague, the Cinemathèque Française, and the Netherlands Filmmuseum to make the best possible and most complete edition of the original 1919 edit of the film.
J'accuse!.1919.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 2 h 45 min Size: 3.68 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 794x576 Aspect ratio: 1.378 Frame rate: 25.000 fps Bit rate: 3 000 kb/s BPP: 0.262 Audio #1: zxx 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Score by Robert Israel)
https://nitro.download/view/9A097CAD78796B8/J’accuse!.1919.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
Language(s):French Intertitles
Subtitles:English
