''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
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
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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
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Nicole Garcia
Nicole Garcia (born 22 April 1946) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Charlie Says'' was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Her film ''Going Away'' was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2 ...
(Patricia Caron, the widow)
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Jacques Perrin (Marcel Caron, the captain)
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Georges Wilson (the barristers president)
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Charles Denner
Charles Denner (29 May 1926 – 10 September 1995) was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Tarnów, Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, ...
(Gillard, the defense counsel)
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Claude Jade (Valouin, the lawyer of the indictment)
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Georges Marchal (General Keller, a witness)
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Christophe Malavoy (Automarchi, a witness)
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Jean Vigny
Jean Vigny (5 October 1919 – 7 September 2020) was a Franco-Swiss actor. Over the course of his long career, he acted in theater, musicals, film, television, and radio.
References
External links
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Jean Vigny , Accueil
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(Prof. Paulet, a historian)
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Florent Pagny ("la Ficelle")
External links
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1982 films
Algerian War films
Films directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer
French war films
Films scored by Philippe Sarde
1980s war films
1980s French films
1980s French-language films
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