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Description: | Public hanging, probably in Serbia (later Yugoslavia) during the First World War, of three male prisoners in civilian clothes.
Small prison house; an officer comes out followed by armed guard of soldiers with three civilian male prisoners; two of them appear to be brothers. They are put into an open truck. The next scene is of a gallows in a large field. The three condemned men stand by their scaffolds. A small crowd of police, soldiers, officers and Orthodox priests stand around while the sentence is read out. In the background a large crowd watches from a low hill, kept back by troops. In between a horse grazes. A priest followed by an officer speaks to the condemned, a man takes photographs and another (journalist ?) makes notes. Next shot of condemned standing on tables below nooses. Each man is executed in succession. Executioners tug on the men's legs to ensure they are dead. Crowds leave scene. A group of women in black is singled out by the camera which suggests that they may be the widows.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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