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Humanitarian Action
and Cinema, ICRC Films in the 1920s Switzerland / 1921
/ Prolog 17', filmy z 1921 r. 100', Epilog 13'
At the 10th International
Conference of the Red Cross in 1921 in Geneva, the ICRC presented
four films that it had commissioned from its delegations in
Szczecin, Warsaw, Budapest and Constantinople. The aim of
the International Committee of the Red Cross was to reaffirm
its post-war role. The films screened at the time are among
the earliest ever made specifically to promote the humanitarian
cause. They deal with problems left unresolved by the First
World War: repatriating prisoners of war, fighting epidemics
("Typhus in Poland" is especially interesting),
looking after children and caring for refugees. The films
presented at the festival have been recently restored by Hermann
Wetter and Jean-Blaise Junod.
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