White Flame

The original screenplay told the story of a young man from the countryside with a city education a boorish violent character filled with a desperate purely urban unease Dekeukeleire transformed him into a butcher who commits an act of rebellion during a political demonstration at the foot of the Yser Tower with authentic images of the 1930 meeting which is being suppressed brutally by the authorities White Flame secretes a drifting air of unreality straight out of Buñuel born out of carnal closeups and an editing style which owes a great deal to Soviet films of that period