1914 - Suddenly, the war

For the 110th birthday of the beginning of WWI, the documentary pictures the first months of the war, lived by the French, civilians and military : disorientation, mobilization, separation, occupation... What does switching into war mean? How to survive, when every mark disappears? How to accept it and consent to sacrifices? With 300 000 dead between August and December 1914, those first months were the most devastating of all WWI for the French. This confilct, was supposed to be short, but is now frozen in trenches..