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.


Blood of the Beasts (1949)
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Director, Writer
Writer
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Georges Hubert
Narrator (voice)
NL
Nicole Ladmiral
Narrator (voice)
AM
Alfred Macquart
Himself, horse slaughterer
MG
Maurice Griselle
Himself, cow slaughterer
AB
André Brunier
Poleaxer
HF
Henri Fournel
Butcher