- Summary
- Memoriav and the ICRC have been working together to save films made by the ICRC between 1921 and 1960, and preserved on nitrate-based film stock. In the spring of 1921, the ICRC sought to reaffirm its role in the post-war world by producing four films (commissioned from its delegations in Narva and Stettin, Warsaw, Budapest and Constantinople) covering the repatriation of prisoners of war, the fight against epidemics, care for children and aid to refugees. This initiative was repeated in 1923. The first DVD shows the film archives in their raw, unedited state. The second attempts to re-create the films; each film is set in context by short documentaries in French or English.
- Other Title
- Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève : ses activites d'après-guerre.
Comité international de la Croix Rouge: rapatriement des prisonniers de guerre.
Luttre contre le typhus.
Actions de secours en faveur des enfants hongrois à Budapest.
Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève: les refugies russes de Constantiople.
International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, and its post-war activities.
International Red Cross Committee: repatriating of prisoners of war.
Fight against typhus.
Organisation of help in favour of the Hungarian children in Budapest.
International Red Cross Committee of Geneva: Russian refugees in Constantinople.
- Variant Title
- Humanitarian action and cinema
Films CICR des années 1920
ICRC films in the 1920s
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [Geneva] : CICR ; [Bern] : Memoriav, c2005
- Contents
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[Disc 1] Films sources = Source films: Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève : ses activites d'après-guerre = International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, and its post-war activities (1923); Comité international de la Croix Rouge : rapatriement des prisonniers de guerre = International Red Cross Committee: repatriating of prisoners of war ; La luttre contre le typhus = The fight against typhus ; Actions de secours en faveur des enfants hongrois à Budapest = Organisation of help in favour of the Hungarian children in Budapest; Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève: les refugies russes de Constantinople = International Red Cross Committee of Geneva: Russian refugees in Constantinople (1921)
[disc 2] Films restitués = Restored films: Prologue: Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève: ses activites d'après-guerre ; en savoir plus = International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, and its post-war activities ; to find out more (1923). Les films de 1921: Comité international de la Croix Rouge: rapatriement des prisonniers de guerre = International Red Cross Committee: repatriating of prisoners of war; La luttre contre le typhus = The fight against typhus; Actions de secours en faveur des enfants hongrois à Budapest = Organisation of help in favour of the Hungarian children in Budapest; Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève: les refugies russes de Constantinople ; en savoir plus = International Red Cross Committee of Geneva: Russian refugees in Constantinople (1921) ; to find out more. Epilogue: Xme Conference internationale de la Croix-Rouge = 10th International Conference of the Red Cross ; Film de la Croix-Rouge suédoise = Swedish Red Cross film; Famine en Russie = Famine in Russia.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Junod, Jean-Blaise.
Wetter, Hermann.
Natale, Enrico.
Marchand, Elizabeth.
Memoriav (Association)
International Committee of the Red Cross.
- Notes
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Library is missing Disc 2.
Silent films from the 1920s.
Titles from introductory screens and containers.
[Disc 1] Films sources = Source films: Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève : ses activites d'après-guerre = International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, and its post-war activities (1923); Comité international de la Croix Rouge : rapatriement des prisonniers de guerre = International Red Cross Committee: repatriating of prisoners of war ; La luttre contre le typhus = The fight against typhus ; Actions de secours en faveur des enfants hongrois à Budapest = Organisation of help in favour of the Hungarian children in Budapest; Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève: les refugies russes de Constantinople = International Red Cross Committee of Geneva: Russian refugees in Constantinople (1921) -- [disc 2] Films restitués = Restored films: Prologue: Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève: ses activites d'après-guerre ; en savoir plus = International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, and its post-war activities ; to find out more (1923). Les films de 1921: Comité international de la Croix Rouge: rapatriement des prisonniers de guerre = International Red Cross Committee: repatriating of prisoners of war; La luttre contre le typhus = The fight against typhus; Actions de secours en faveur des enfants hongrois à Budapest = Organisation of help in favour of the Hungarian children in Budapest; Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à Genève: les refugies russes de Constantinople ; en savoir plus = International Red Cross Committee of Geneva: Russian refugees in Constantinople (1921) ; to find out more. Epilogue: Xme Conference internationale de la Croix-Rouge = 10th International Conference of the Red Cross ; Film de la Croix-Rouge suédoise = Swedish Red Cross film; Famine en Russie = Famine in Russia.
Commentary text, Enrico Natale ; narrators, Elizabeth Marchand, Jean-Blaise Junod ; restoration, Hermann Wetter, Jean-Blaise Junod.
DVD PAL, region 9.
English and French.
