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Panoramas of War

DocumentaryHistory
6.3·2018·0h 52m

The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desol...

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Cast

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Florian Wormser

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Yadegar Asisi

Self - Artist

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Adrien Moser

Self - Art Collector

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Dominik Bartmann

Self - Art Historian

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Jean-Pierre Klein

Self - Researcher

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François Robichon

Self - Art Historian

DIRECTOR

Rüdiger Mörsdorf

OVERVIEW

The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mass media prior to the era of mass media, a virtual reality on canvas.