- A Captain's Honor
Infobox Film
name = A Captain's Honor
director =Pierre Schoendoerffer
producer =Georges de Beauregard
writer =Jean-François Chauvel Pierre Schoendoerffer Daniel Yonnet
starring =Nicole Garcia Jacques Perrin Georges Wilson Charles Denner Claude Jade Georges Marchal Christophe Malavoy Jean Vigny Florent Pagny
music =Philippe Sarde
cinematography =Bernard Lutic
editing =Michèle Lavigne
released = flagicon|FranceDecember 29 1982
runtime = 117 mins.
country =France
language = French
amg_id = 1:151432
imdb_id = 0084089A Captain's Honor (L'honneur d'un capitaine) is a French film directed by
Pierre Schoendoerffer (1982)starring:
*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 historican)
*Florent Pagny ("la Ficelle")A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historican on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he wasn't a murderer and didn't practice torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algeria 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 2 weeks, day by day.
The film is using numerous flashbacks depicting battle scenes in Algeria.
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