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An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
Status
Released
Original Language
FR
Poleaxer
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.