Restoring 'Verdun' at the National Gallery From: The Washington Post | Date: August 4, 2006| Author: Christina Talcott - Washington Post Staff Writer | Copyright 2006 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

"Verdun, Visions d'Histoire" travels all the way from Toulouse, France, for its screening at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday. But the 4,000-mile journey -- one also made by Natacha Laurent of the Cinematheque de Toulouse and pianist Hakim Bentchouala-Golobitch -- is nothing for this well-traveled film.

Laurent calls Leon Poirier's 1928 silent film "very important for the history of French cinema and the history of cinema overall." (The film also features a young Antonin Arta...

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