House of the Invalids

Name: House of the Invalids
Director: Georges Franju
Genre: Short, Documentary
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Michel Simon, Choeurs des Petits Chanteurs de St. François

IMDb link: 0044733
IMDb rating: 6.6 (435 votes)
Genres: Short, Documentary
Director: Georges Franju
Cast: Michel Simon, Choeurs des Petits Chanteurs de St. François and others

Release year: 1952
Runtime: 22 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: museum, grave of famous person, prosthetic limb, church, trench warfare, world war one, archive footage, museum guide, reference to napoleon, military museum

Plot:

A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From Francois I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing - at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.

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