
From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second World War: an era during which there was an aspiration to create a new world, prosperous and at peace, but which provoked a new tragedy, seen through the destinies of thirteen people who were both actors and witnesses of the upheavals of the so-called inter-war period.

as Charles Edward Montague

as Rudolf Höß

as Silvio Crespi

as Edith Wellspacher

as Elise Ottesen

as Hans Beimler

as Unity Mitford

as Nguyen Ai Quoc

as Pola Negri

as May Picqueray

as Stepan Podlubny

as Marcel Jamet

as Marina Yurlova