
A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December 1916, the French and German armies relentlessly fought in the devastated camps around the village of Verdun.
Cast

Mathieu Kassovitz
Self - Narrator (voice)

Émile Driant
Self (archive footage)

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
Self (archive footage)

Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)

Joseph Joffre
Self (archive footage)

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Self (archive footage)

King George V of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)

Erich Ludendorff
Self (archive footage)
Jean Navarre
Self (archive footage)
Robert Nivelle
Self (archive footage)

Philippe Pétain
Self (archive footage)

Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen
Self (archive footage)

Paul von Hindenburg
Self (archive footage)
Crew

Daniel Costelle
Director, Writer

Isabelle Clarke
Director, Writer, Editor
Kévin Accart
Co-Writer, Assistant Director
Mickaël Gamrasni
Co-Writer
Karine Bach
Editor
Sonia Romero
Editor
François Montpellier
Colorist
Guillaume Lips
Color Grading

Louis Vaudeville
Executive Producer
Gilbert Courtois
Sound Designer, Sound Editor
Benjamin Lecuyer
Sound Mixer
Louis Gignac
Sound Mixer

Christian Clermont
Original Music Composer
Florence Sarrazin Mounier
Production Director
Marie-Cécile Bouguet
Researcher
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