dimarts, 17 de març del 2026

Sobre la guerra

"Any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee" (John Donne, 1624) 

"War is hell" (William Sherman, 1879)  





A la consideració de governants, polítics, ideòlegs, poderosos, militars i gent socialment influent, però també de tothom, perquè la guerra afecta a tots:


Llibres

Die Waffen nieder! (1889) - Bertha von Suttner 

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války (1921 - 1923) - Jaroslav Hašek

Im Westen nichts Neues (1929) - Erich Maria Remarque  

Un hiver à Souchez, 1915-1916 (1930) - Jean Galtier-Boissière 

Les damnés de la guerre (1934) - Roger Monclin 

War is a racket (1935) - Smedley Butler 

Paths of glory (1935) - Humphrey Cobb 

Johnny goes his gun (1939) - Dalton Trumbo 

Het Achterhuis (1947) - Anne Frank 

Nineteen eighty four (1949) - George Orwell 

On the beach (1957) - Nevil Shute 

Die Brücke (1958) - Gregor Dorfmeister 

The longest day (1959) - Cornelius Ryan 

La planète des singes (1963) - Pierre Boulle 

The last battle (1966) - Cornelius Ryan 

A bridge too far (1974) - Cornelius Ryan 

Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali (2000) - Gil Courtemanche 

J'ai serré la main du diable (2003) - Roméo Dallaire 

I cecchini del weekend: l'inchiesta sui safari umani in Sarajevo (2026) - Ezio Gavazzeni 



Pel·lícules

All quiet in the western front (1930) - Lewis Milestone 

Theirs is the glory (1946) - Brian Desmond Hurst 

Nuit et brouillard (1956) - Alain Resnais

Biruma no tategoto (1956) - Kon Ichikawa 

Paths of glory (1957) - Stanley Kubrick 

Die Brücke (1959) - Bernhard Wicki 

Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Alain Resnais 

On the beach (1959) - Stanley Kramer 

The longest day (1962) - Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Darryl Zanuck, Bernhard Wicki i Gerd Oswald

Fail safe (1964) - Sidney Lumet

Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick 

Planet of the apes (1968) - Franklin Schaffner 

Nihonkai daikansen (1969) - Seiji Maruyama 

Patton (1970) - Franklin Schaffner 

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda 

Johnny goes his gun (1971) - Dalton Trumbo 

A bridge too far (1977) - Richard Attenborough 

Gallipoli (1981) - Peter Weir 

Das Boot (1981) - Wolfgang Petersen 

The year of living dangerously (1982) - Peter Weir 

Missing (1982) - Costa-Gavras 

The day after (1983) - Nicholas Meyer 

Wargames (1983) - John Badham 

The killing fields (1984) - Roland Joffé 

A bright shinning lie (1998) - Terry George 

100 days (2001) - Nick Hughes 

Hotel Rwanda (2004) - Terry George 

Shooting dogs (2005) - Michael Caton-Jones 

Sometimes in april (2005) - Raoul Peck

Paradise now (2005) - Hany Abu Assad 

Un dimanche à Kigali (2006) - Robert Favreau 

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Clint Eastwood 

Shake hands with the devil (2007) - Roger Spottiswoode 

Vals im Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman 

Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009) - Lu Chan 

En resum:  Mai més una guerra!