Overview
The iconic book ”Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century” by Patrik Ouředník, first published in 2001, thanks to the imagination of the French filmmaker has transformed into an apocalyptic chronicle of the last century. A straightforward testimony of scientific rationality, which led the society to a spiritual crisis and resulted in six genocides, is accompanied with melancholic Mahlerian echoes of La Belle Époque when the world was just getting ready for the century that negated all humanity. The film raises the question whether Europe in post-history and post-humanity, sweetly anaesthetized to collective unconsciousness, will pretend as if nothing had happened.
Production
Abacaris Films · ARTE
Cast & Characters
Valérie Dréville
Aliénor de Mézamat
Ignace Steiner
Directors & Crew
Arnaud de Mezamat
Director
Patrik Ouředník
Writer
Arnaud de Mezamat
Producer
Screenshots & Stills
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