The picture that marches to a different drummer
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
- 6.3
- 1976
- Released
- 1h 32m
Jean Carmet
Sergeant Bosselet
Jacques Dufilho
Paul Rechampot
Catherine Rouvel
Marinette
Jacques Spiesser
Hubert Fresnoy
Dora Doll
Maryvonne
Maurice Barrier
Caprice
Benjamin Memel Atchory
Assomption
Peter Berling
Père Jean de la CroixMarius Beugre Boignan
Barthelmy
Claude Legros
Jacques RechampotBaye Macoumba Diop
Lamartine
Dieter Schidor
KraftAboubacar Touré
FideleMarc Zuber
Major AnglaisMamadou Koulibaly
OscarHelmut Eiker
Klaus Huebl
HaussmannNatou Koly
CharlotteBertin Kouakou
Tanoh Kouao
JohnJean-François Eyou N'Guessan
MariusReleased
fr
- #africa
- #colonialism
- #french colonialism
- #german colonialism
Reviews
There’s something really quite fitting about the end of this film that rather sums up the whole approach to Africa that was taken by the European powers. This film is set on the Côte D’Ivoire where the war has once again pitched the adjacent French and German forces against each other. The French aren’t immediately convinced that this is remotely their war, but eventually the soldiers decide that