Paris 1919: Un traite pour la paix

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Audience Member This is a way of making docudrama that is highly essential and elegant at the same time, or maybe it should be called a documentary with dramatizations and illustrations. Regardless, there is a perfect balance between digitally restored footage from the actual events, or the time, in a combination of very credible pockets of drama, but even also still photos from both showing the participants either as actors in carfully selected situations or the orginal statesmen and their assistans, creating illustrations of the sobriety and strainfulness of solving all problems and demands in this first global peace conference. The actors basically also look like the originals, which is helpful. All this is interwined by a brilliant narration, together with well chosen quotes, again perfectly adapted to the footage, and explaining the matters so that anyone should understand, but without in any way making it banal to the scholared. Maybe it just can't be made much better than this, and Paris 1919 should be mandatory in history lessons everywhere, but also every parliament. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member This film shows the drafting of the treaty that not only was a direct cause of the Second World War but also created the modern Middle East and the treaty is responsible for many of the problems still found there. The Treaty of Versailles has been a disaster we're all still paying for. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member WWI has ended. Millions have died in a war that was fought not just in Europe but around the world. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson has arrived in Paris, France to lead the peace talks and decide whether Germany will be punished brutally or lightly by the victors. He's also pushing for his "League of Nations" agenda...where individual nations will join together to prevent another "world war" from occurring. Countries were erased while others were born. The world's geography was changed over and over as the politicians made demands and wrangled for the best "deal" for their constituents back home. And the seeds of bitterness were sown in Germany...seeds that would grow into the Nazi movement within less than twenty years. What was expected to take 4 weeks dragged on into 6 months and the decisions made would have global repercussions for the next 100 years. Well done production on a limited budget. Viewing the archival footage was very interesting and added value to the movie. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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