L'honneur d'un capitaine
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Original title | L'honneur d'un capitaine |
Country of production | France |
original language | French |
Publishing year | 1982 |
length | 117 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Pierre Schoendoerffer |
script | Pierre Schoendoerffer, Jean-François Chauvel |
production | Georges de Beauregard |
music | Philippe Sarde |
camera | Bernard Lutic |
cut | Michèle Lavigne |
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L'honneur d'un capitaine is a French feature film from 1982 that is told as an anti-war film in the guise of a judicial drama . The leading roles are Jacques Perrin , Nicole Garcia , Georges Wilson , Claude Jade and Charles Denner .
action
The Algerian war is the subject of a televised debate in which sociology professor Paulet (Jean Vigny) denounces the methods used by Capitaine Kapitän (Jacques Perrin), who was killed in 1957.
Caron's widow Patricia (Nicole Garcia) is outraged by the accusation against her husband and decides to sue Paulet. Her uncle, chairman of the bar (Georges Wilson) refuses to plead for her. Patricia hires a friend, the young lawyer Valouin (Claude Jade). But when the two women learn that Paulet is being defended by the successful lawyer Maître Gillard (Charles Denner), they bring Patricia's uncle in. The nineteen days under the command of Captain Caron are being reconstructed in court. The former subordinates of Caron at the head testify and it turns out that Caron did not come to the head of the battalion until the day after the execution of an Algerian traitor. Caron only appeared to restore order. Eighteen days and not nineteen! Caron is not responsible. But here, too, doubts remain about the Caron case. The professor is convicted of defamation, the "honor of a captain" is saved.
background
After the 317th section and Le crabe tambour , L'honneur d'un capitaine is the third anti-war film by former war correspondent Pierre Schoendoerffer with actor Jacques Perrin .
As Antomarchi, one of the witnesses in court and a young soldier in flashbacks, the future star Christophe Malavoy can be seen in one of his first major roles.