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War Work: 8 Songs with Film

War Work: 8 Songs with Film

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 28, 2014

Runtime

1h 5m

User Score

74%

Original Title

War Work: 8 Songs with Film

Director

Michael Nyman

Description

A song cycle combining texts written by World War I poets, most all of whom lost their lives during the war, chansons vieilles from European poets, archival visual excerpts, and fragments of musical motifs evoking the unknown soldiers: those who have never been found or have lost their lives.