The colonel and me
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The colonel and me |
| Original title | Mon Colonel |
| Country of production | France , Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Laurent Herbiet |
| script |
Constantin Costa-Gavras , Jean-Claude Grumberg |
| production |
Michèle Ray-Gavras , Salem Brahimi , Constantin Costa-Gavras, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| music | Armand Amar |
| camera | Patrick Blossier |
| cut | Nicole Berckmans |
| occupation | |
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The Colonel and I is a Franco-Belgian historical film from 2006. The drama is a literary adaptation of the novel by Francis Zamponi . The film celebrated its world premiere on September 11, 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was broadcast for the first time in Germany on October 22, 2009 on ARTE .
action
France, 1993. Colonel a. D. Raoul Duplan is found shot dead in his home. The police are at a loss, whereupon the army assigns the young officer Galois to investigate. Shortly afterwards, she received a letter containing a few pages in the diary of a lieutenant who had served under Duplans' command in the Algerian war since 1955 and who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1957. The law student had volunteered out of heartache.
Every day Galois receives a continuation of the diary in which Rossi describes in detail his ambivalent relationship with Duplan and his dirty methods. Rossi also had to be present at torture and public shootings. In the end, Galois realizes who it was who shot Duplan.
criticism
“The film adaptation of the novel combines a contemporary crime story with the largely suppressed topic of the Algerian war. The remarkable, well-acted film debut succeeds in confidently interlacing the time levels. "
"Director Laurent Herbiet turned this gripping work around a dark chapter of French colonial history [...] Herbiet [...] skilfully and mercilessly combines a modern murder story with the historical events in black and white in the former French department, in which the ' Pieds-noirs' described French Algerians as a colorful community until independence in 1963. "
Web links
- The colonel and I in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information on ARTE
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Colonel and I. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Colonel and I. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed in 2017 .