A terrible and deeply moving shot, never-endingly decomposed perhaps only a few photograms in the original film - portrays the fatal timelessness of the pictures patiently collected and analysed by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi. Such as this communal grave into which tumble, one after the another and in slow motion, heavy and dislocated bodies. These war pictures from the beginning of the 20th century foreshadow other conflicts, either worldwide or limited only to the Balkans or Chechnya. One of the spectators calls on us as witness and seems to ask: 'Isn't any war crime a crime against humanity?' Inspired by letters from those in captivity, song by Giovanna Marini and illustrated by library shots of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian armies, Prigionieri della Guerra recounts the exodus of people in turn victors and vanquished, but also a soil swamped with the blood of innocents swept up in a storm that will unceasingly recur.