Black and White in Color
Black and White in Color (, then Noirs et Blancs en couleur for the 1977 re-issue) is a 1976 French-Ivorian black comedy war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. The film is set in the African theater of World War I, during the French invasion of the German colony of Kamerun. The film adopts a strong antimilitaristic point of view, and is noteworthy for ridiculing the French side even more harshly than their German counterparts.
Plot
The film opens in 1915 in a remote French outpost located in the African colony of Cameroon. The French colonists, consisting of a small group of settlers, have been living a tranquil and isolated life, completely oblivious to the raging World War I happening far away in Europe. Their main preoccupation is maintaining a comfortable and leisurely existence.
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| author | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best International Feature Film |
| contentLocation | Africa |
| director | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| editor | Françoise Bonnot |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | african tribe african wilderness bumble happen isolated misunderstand togoland world war i |
| musicBy | Pierre Bachelet |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best International Feature Film International Submission to the Academy Awards |
| producer | Arthur Cohn Giorgio Silvagni Jacques Perrin |
| productionCompany | France 3 |
| publisher | Pathé The Cannon Group, Inc. |
| theme | black comedy noir war |