A Captain's Honor
1982 French film
- 29 December 1982 (1982-12-29)
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A Captain's Honor (French: L'Honneur d'un capitaine) 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.
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")
External links
- L'Honneur d'un capitaine at IMDb
- L'Honneur d'un capitaine at AllMovie
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Films by Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Ramuntcho (1959)
- The 317th Platoon (1965)
- Objectif 500 millions (1966)
- The Anderson Platoon (1967)
- Le Crabe-tambour (1977)
- A Captain's Honor (1982)
- Dien Bien Phu (1992)
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