Film · Documentary
Blood of the Beasts (1949)
★ 7.5 · 86 votes23 minDocumentary1949
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
- Director
- Georges Franju
- Writers
- Jean Painlevé, Georges Franju
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- January 1, 1949
- Original title
- Le Sang des bêtes
Cast
- Georges HubertNarrator (voice)
Nicole LadmiralNarrator (voice)- Alfred MacquartHimself, horse slaughterer
- Maurice GriselleHimself, cow slaughterer
- André BrunierPoleaxer
- Henri FournelButcher
