A Captain's Honor
A Captain's Honor is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.
Plot
A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historian on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he was not a murderer and did not practise torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algerian war.
More details
author | Jean-François Chauvel |
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director | Pierre Schoendoerffer |
editor | Michèle Lavigne |
events | Algerian War |
keywords | battle scene day by day |
musicBy | Philippe Sarde |
producer | Georges de Beauregard |
recordedAt | Combrit Morlaix Quimper |
theme | war |