The read
Critics rate it 33 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 82% of the 1,160 1970s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 33 points higher than audiences do.
44 audience votes
Key crew
- Jean-Jacques AnnaudDirector
- Georges ConchonWriter
- Jean-Jacques AnnaudWriter
- Pierre BacheletOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jean CarmetSergeant Bosselet
- Jacques DufilhoPaul Rechampot
- Catherine RouvelMarinette
- Jacques SpiesserHubert Fresnoy
- Dora DollMaryvonne
- Maurice BarrierCaprice
- Benjamin Memel AtchoryAssomption
- Peter BerlingPère Jean de la Croix
- Marius Beugre BoignanBarthelmy
- Claude LegrosJacques Rechampot
- Baye Macoumba DiopLamartine
- Jacques MonnetPère Simon
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Themes
africacolonialismfrench colonialismgerman colonialism
The Best Movies of 1976
Black and White in Color is #25 of 60
