Casse pipe

David Raffini, Florian Pugnaire

France / 2011 / Fiction, Documentary / 26’44”N1200076

Casse pipe
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SYNOPSIS

In the days of Napoleon, when a soldier was hurt on the battle field, he underwent surgery without anaesthesia. During the operation the patient was allowed to smoke a ceramic pipe of opium. If it fell and broke on the ground that meant the soldier had died. Whence the french expression: "casser sa pipe" (to kick the bucket).

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