A Captain's Honor
A Captain's Honor (French: L'Honneur d'un capitaine) is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.
| A Captain's Honor | |
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| Directed by | Pierre Schoendoerffer |
| Written by | Jean-François Chauvel Pierre Schoendoerffer Daniel Yonnet |
| Produced by | Georges de Beauregard |
| Starring | Nicole Garcia Jacques Perrin Georges Wilson Charles Denner Claude Jade Georges Marchal Christophe Malavoy Jean Vigny Florent Pagny |
| Cinematography | Bernard Lutic |
| Edited by | Michèle Lavigne |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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.
She decides to sue the man who accused him of being a torturer and thus begins an investigation which retraces the Captain's last two weeks, day by day.
The film uses numerous flashbacks depicting battle scenes in Algeria.
Cast
- Nicole Garcia (Patricia Caron, the widow)
- Jacques Perrin (Marcel Caron, the captain)
- Georges Wilson (the barristers president)
- Charles Denner (Gillard, the defense counsel)
- Claude Jade (Valouin, the lawyer of the indictment)
- Georges Marchal (General Keller, a witness)
- Christophe Malavoy (Automarchi, a witness)
- Jean Vigny (Prof. Paulet, a historian)
- Florent Pagny ("la Ficelle")
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