Gueules cassées - Men with broken faces (1918) - Music by Igorrr (2008)

[StoneBoneAndFire]

Great music, just as interesting as the video, good work, top marks, well done, bravo, chin chin, hurrah and huzzah, three cheers, hip hip horay, congratulations, jubilation, pat self on back, you must be proud, smug smile, anyone who doesn't like the music is a frightful bore and a dirty rotter.

[historrober]

Incredible document. The music is powerful and dramatic; perfect for these images.

[aj0446]

i start the vid and i hear like BLANG BLANG super loud in my speakers, then i muted. but atleast it was not like Mj sinning thriller or something..

[26cocorico]

horrible music ! awfull !

[goldsak]

mute the sound? duh...

[Hudson1910]

Cant keep watching because the music is giving me a horrific headache.

[TheMichellepop]

wow

[JBicks18]

It's videos like this that should be shown to people who think being a soldier is about being the brave man or woman in the crisp uniform. It's an honour to serve your country, but it isn't always about crisp uniforms, marching, and becoming a hero. Real heroes aren't always beautiful and 6 foot 4. Sometimes, they're missing body parts, and have damages beyond belief. These men are what being brave means: Sacrificing EVERYTHING, not only your rights.

[polominolo]

@FanOfficiel Tu es la honte de la France.

Ces hommes ont, avec leurs compagnons, qui étaient boulangers, instituteurs, artisans etc... donné leur vie pour défendre leur patrie et leurs compatriotes, protégeant les plus faibles et ceux qui ne pouvaient pas se battre.

Ils y ont laissé leur vie, sont revenus mutilés et ont subi des chocs psychologiques inimaginables.

[Talentz92]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Richard Harrow

[herelies]

this would be a great video IF THERE WAS NO SOUND

[Theshamruck]

@herelies mute button is your friend.

[order57]

A nightmare.

[soldierofdec]

Fucking faggot world elite and their faggot wars.

[28880]

3:43 wow. like...wow..

i wish pastic surgery is like this....looks cheaper and painless......

[JokersThimes]

Tous a fait d'accord et les traites de tete de bite et vraiment honteux de ta part

[NolanChrisMiceli]

@FanOfficiel ces mecs là comme vous c'est ceux qui ont defendu la France aux premieres lignes des tranches de la maniere la plus courageuse qui soit

Veuillez agréer je vous prie mes salutations distinguées,

[FanOfficiel]

Whouaaa j'avais vu un truc aussi laid... Vaux mieux les tuer ses mecs la. Y sont trop moches en plus avec leurs tête de bite.

[hpcs2002]

@FanOfficiel

J'ai le plaisir de t'annoncer que tu es français. Tes grands-parents ont connus le régime Hitlerien. Si les "têtes de bites" comme tu dis n'avait pas été là, tu serais peut-être en train de faire un salut Hitlerien là, alors j'pense qu'au mieux de les insulter, tu pourrais les remercier, et sinon, fermer ta gueule !

Merci

PS: regarde le film "La chambre des officiers" !

[frenchvosges]

C'est à cause de gens comme vous que des guerres continuent d'exister. Un jour, vous le regretterez....

[polominolo]

@FanOfficiel

Et toi tu es tranquille derrière ton ordinateur, au XXIème siècle en train de surfer sur youtube pour te foutre de la gueule de ces hommes avec leurs "tête de bite"!

Espèce de pourriture!

[bbcasting]

The making of Richard Harrow. Cool.

[MrRadar73]

Good vid and choice of music 'parfait!'

It's amazing what they were doing back then before even plastic was invented. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the French who did the first human face transplant in 2005, on the woman whose face was eaten by a dog? Pioneering stuff indeed.

I'm interested that the patients were wearing uniforms. Were they still serving soldiers with those injuries? I could well believe it, tough people in those days.

[FromTheWestToTheEast]

PEACE IN THE WORLD

[Marioluvzbudz]

The first step's of plastic surgery..

[ziggycat999]

Interesting footage........poor choice of music.

[randir14]

That music is extremely annoying.

[NMWMN]

...the soundtrack is utterly incredible

[Dobroschka89]

WTF with this music?!?!?!

[Djarzel]

@OSWALD117 oublie pas la pudeur des soldats aussi , crois tu quils ont envie de faire peur aux enfants ? non alors toi tu es contre les protheses ? ce qui etaient choquant pour les soldats , c est que le quidam comme tu dis,continuer de faire la fete pour oublier la guerre , pendant que ... De toute facon pour les survivants,le plus dure est de revoir les gens qui jamais ne pourront imaginer tout ce quils ont du endurer, pour la plupart.

[dazzlemymonkey]

This video is amazing, i had no idea they did that. The music is horrible though def watch it on mute.

[CMDRafaelPacheco]

You should remove the music, it's just awful and doesn't fit the video at all.

[Mujangga]

Pro Patria Mori...

[zuruzuruzuru]

Great video, terrible music.

[NMWMN]

... each time I watch this, it amazes me even more!

[Vieumachin]

Musique discutable !

[thelordnazgul76]

Aussi longtemps qu'il y aura des hommes, ils ne seront JAMAIS oublier.

[Sahnaa]

Le dernier cri dans la musique de fond... Je pleurais déjà en commençant la vidéo, mais là... C'était juste insoutenable ! ><

[levalpat]

this is an amazing historical document. I do not remember seeing this in the Val de Grace Service de Santé Museum in Paris when I visited. It should definitely be incorporated into the display of "les gueules cassées".

[NMWMN]

I loved seeing this footage. Artists are always undermined as parasites, bludgers, dreamers or tossers & then when war breaks out, their on the front line sketching, taking film or photographs and generally interpreting and documenting the loss of mind and reason... becoming the surrogate conscience for populations that have sacrificed it all for blood and spoils, the painters and sculptors who helped in the prosthetic theatres were gifted, talented and wonderful people. Those poor men. Tragic.

[justanotherjunkaddy]

It's remarkable work they were doing for these soldiers. They were able to make them look nearly normal. Even if the prostheses don't look quite right, or even a little creepy, the other choice was to try to live a normal life with half a face...if it were me, I'd take the prosthesis.

[lucmart1]

poor men, they are so brave and lucky they survived.

[kleofaz]

If we could feel the pain they suffer,we all would never go to war. Never ever...

[simplyguys]

Des hommes avec un courage incroyable paix à leurs âmes !

[Kauwhaka]

No, he worst choice is putting Justin Bieber on your MP3 player.

[DxHcf]

War is the worst choice ever

[TKDFBN]

exelente video y musica

[StephanusTacitus]

I would much prefer a straightforward and mercifully quick death.

[urmerm]

It's truly devistating, isn't it?

[LaColoquinte]

Très impressionnant! la musique ajoute à l'effet sans doute. Les pauvres..

[voodoocordo]

@ fidellah23 Thats nonsens! The French weren't more violent than any other nation involved in that war. There were cases of extrreme brutality, thats true. But it happened on both sides, like in any other war.

[Joaquim250]

Lembrar que: homens se fodem só por causa dos outros homens, motivo? dinheiro, sexo, cobiça!

[Julian9ehp]

My mother said she remembered British veterans on the streets of British Colombia in the 1930s. There was a man with his jaw blown off. Some men went around with aluminum or cloth masks. There were men still suffering the after-effects of being gassed.

[GADLARACH5]

can one person can say that French soldiers are cowards now?...

[Ellexhirion]

@GADLARACH5  and why are they cowards?

[GADLARACH5]

@Ellexhirion thats what a lot of Americans say but I dont agree at all with them!!! (Im French)

[Ellexhirion]

@GADLARACH5 ha ok, la maniere dont tu l'avais ecrit voudrai dire qu'il sont des laches maintenant :). ils etait certainement pas des laches :), les belges non plus, les brittaniques encore moins.

qu'ils restent a jamais dans nos mémmoires.

[fidellah23]

@GADLARACH5 I doubt you have heard alot of Americans say that...in World War One which the casulties of this movie are from... the French soldiers had a reputation of being very violent and brutal adversary to the Germans.I believe it was the French soldiers which would cut off the Germans noses and ears if they found a German soldier with a seraded bayonet.

[SpikeTFA]

Dulce et decorum est....

[WWIIairsoftColorado]

@SpikeTFA What a beautiful poem

[KnutHenningKunze]

A sad thing. The terrible War. Thanks for uploading. What a brillant doctor or designer, an early kind of plastic chirurgy. Why the terrible industrial music? To shock the watcher? It is a very sad thing, so sad music would be the best.

[videosamurai]

@KnutHenningKunze Music like this is brand new and shocking to the ear, but I feel these visuals compliment it perfectly. The chopped, studdering breakbeats emphasize the pain and feeling of being incomplete that these brave men must have felt.

There is poignant sadness and melancholy in the opera music samples Igorr uses. Together, they tell a compelling story of pain and redemption.

at least it does for me :)

[deemilieu]

poor fellows. their souls are all at rest now.

[jesusownsall]

holy shit im so high

[kalipy1983]

a la memoire des geules casser...

des hommes ki on combattu pour la france...

des hommes ki se fon rejeté par la france ou par sa nation...

des hommes rejeté par leur femme et leur enfant...

des hommes ki se suicide pour plus vivre...

des hommes pas comme les autres...

merci les guele casser pour se ke vous avez fait...

[Joaquim250]

@kalipy1983 De homens que se fuderam por causa dos outros...

[bxlfr3]

@kalipy1983 putain gars, tu parles de la france. fais au moins l'effort de parler français. notre langue fait aussi partie des choses pour lesquelles ces gens ont été défigurés donc écrire un texte (déja pas des plus originaux - on sent le rejeté de la classe frustré à des Km) avec autant de fautes, c'est un peu du bon gros foutage de geule pour ceux dont tu parles.

[kalipy1983]

@bxlfr3 ecoute mon pote sa fai 10ans kejvi plu en france alors si tes pa content c pariel

[bxlfr3]

@kalipy1983 et moi jsuis belge donc c'est te dire si j'en ai rien a foutre de leur geule. Jdis juste que si c'est pour ecrire de la merde, autant l'écrire juste. Tu passera p-e pas entièrement pour un con.

[Centurator]

@kalipy1983 mec ton commentaire est super, merci

[slozam]

@kalipy1983 aujourd'hui tout le monde s'en fiche des dates qui leur sont consacrées pourtant leur propre grand-pére ont participé a cette meme guerre moi je suis senegalais et je suis tout le temps les dates qui leur sont consacrées meme si ils ne font pas trop de plan sur nos grand parents tirrailleur africains.dommage car ce sont nos grand parent qui ont étaient leur garde du corps en quelques sortent sinon aujourdh'ui ont seraient deutsh!

[UniversalStudiosFR]

@kalipy1983 Apprend à écrire surtout hein ?

[Kilnago]

@kalipy1983 Une meilleur orthographe et ça aurait été un super discours ^^

[Supereguillemvideo35]

@kalipy1983 Malgré le nombre de fautes , il est tout a fait remarquable et gentil de leur faire mémoire et honneur :D

[warpholak]

Brilliant music, neoclassic & industrial, breakcore, break beat... or whatever it is, this is amazing... and the clip kinda fits the music so well... must have this album...

[niclamerix]

that was insane! what a terrible and grotesque nightmare... fucking brilliantly done

[brotherwoo]

@niclamerix you do know that this is real footage, taken of real victims of trench warfare, right? these are real artists, making real facial prosthetics for people who had become outcasts after fighting for their country? this is real...sorry if i took your comment too seriously. maybe i misread your intent...

[deemilieu]

man of these men wore their tin masks long after the paint had faded. i read that many were even buried in them when they passed away. it's as if the mask became part of their identity.