Battles (2015)

• 60%
• 2015
• Documentary
• History
• War
• Isabelle Tollenaere
• Viktor Anatolievich Volkov
• Madara Marta Viciule
• Nina Nikolaevna Volkova

Is a war ever really over? Battles reveals a past that has not come to an end, by scrutinizing the traces which remain in the landscape and the memory. A bomb, bunker, tank, soldier - four archetypes of warfare - lead us through places in Europe where conflicts have occurred in the recent past. We discover the transformation of people, things and landscapes following demilitarization. An elderly man in a country inundated with bunkers, grotesque scenes of a prison camp at night, the final days of antiquated explosives, an army of women working on explodable artillery,...