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Forcats d'Honneur: Le Chemin de Buchenwald (released in the U.S. in 1947 in a dubbed version as "We Lived Through Buchenwald"), the 1946 E.G. de Meyst Belgian World War II (WWII) Germany Nazi Holocaust Jewish concentration camp melodrama (about a group of diverse prisoners who managed to survive at the most notorious concentration camp, and some of it was filmed at the actual camp!) starring Rene Herde, Andre Gevrey, Marcel Josz, Werner Degan, Joseph Gevers, Hubert Daix, Maurice Auzat, and Anne-Marie Ferrieres. This is one of the earliest movies about World War II, and yet it is the third such movie made by this director in a three year period (see below)! Note that director E.G. de Meyst was a major early director (and one of the only successful Belgian directors ever), but he is completely forgotten today except by major film buffs. He made his first movie in Belgium in 1923 when he was 21 (financed by a loan from his mother!), and he went to Paris where he met Abel Gance, who saw his ability, but was most impressed by his use of mirrors to make it appear that there were many more people on screen then there actually were (Gance would use Meyst's technique in his masterpiece, Napoleon, in 1927). Meyst would return to Belgium and return to France, due to the difficulties of making movies in Belgium, which, unlike France had almost no film industry. In 1936 he made "Le Mort", which many consider his best movie, and he played the starring role! Starting in 1944 he made a trilogy of three prisoner-of-war films: "Soldats sans uniforme", "Baraques 1" (a year later) and "Forcats d'Honneur" in 1946. Original poster material from any of these three movies is virtually non-existent. He continued making some movies until 1962, and he then retired, and he passed away in 1989 at the age of 87, almost completely forgotten.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. In 2017 we auctioned a different Belgian poster from this movie which measured 14 1/2" x 21 1/2", and it sold for $391 and that poster had a different image (which was a montage of photos and some art). At that time, it was the only poster from any of these three prisoner of war movies that we had ever auctioned. Now, we are auctioning a second poster from this movie, and this one measures 11 1/4" x 17", and like the earlier poster it is also printed on the back of part of a map. This is an extremely rare and important poster about the Holocaust! This poster is printed on the back of a map or part of another poster! Why is this? During World War II, there were massive paper shortages in Belgium. Where Belgian movie posters had previously been approximately 23" x 32", there was such a shortage of paper that not only did they often have to print them on the back of other posters or maps, but during World War II, the size of the posters shrank dramatically, with some of them as small as 11" x 15". This situation continued even after World War II, until around 1946 or 1947, when they began making Belgian movie posters in a size of roughly 14" x 22", which became the standard size, and continued for decades! The posters like these that are from during World War II or immediately after, and which are printed in a small size (often on the back of other posters or maps) are INCREDIBLY rare (surely they did not print many, and surely many of them were soon recycled themselves! Note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this Belgian movie! Also note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube.

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