A Arte de ir à Guerra Mundial (48′)
[The Art of Going to the World War]
Directed by José Carlos Oliveira
2014

Germany is attacking Mozambique and Angola, the Portuguese Republic is but four years old and Europe is all at war. “The Art of Going to the World War” speaks to us about what and where we were at the beginning of the war that spread and dragged in the entire world.

“The Art of Going to the World War” conveys the conjugation of reasons and the consequences of the conflict that saw Portugal participating in the First World War through a vast look at the then contemporary societies and the subjectivity of their multiple motives, from Germany to France, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States through to the Portuguese vision across the sociological, geo-strategic, philosophical, historical-political and artistic levels. And this traces the impacts and alterations brought about by the First World War and that have led through to today in a Europe that faces a world dotted with ongoing wars, on military and financial battlefields and driving massive social convulsions.

In four sessions, the “Images of the Great War” cinema cycle revisits a painful memory: the beginning of conflict in the African colonies, the departure of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps for Flanders, the first filmed reports capturing the reality for the thousands of Portuguese youth mobilised for battle and constituting a documented account of the experiences of recruitment, training, deployment to the front, the tragedy of life in the trenches, the traumas of confinement and return.

Maximum 2 tickets per person.

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