A Captain's Honor
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| Directed by | Pierre Schoendoerffer |
| Produced by | Georges de Beauregard |
| Written by | Jean-François Chauvel Pierre Schoendoerffer Daniel Yonnet |
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Nicole Garcia Jacques Perrin Georges Wilson Charles Denner Claude Jade Georges Marchal Christophe Malavoy Jean Vigny Florent Pagny |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
| Cinematography | Bernard Lutic |
| Edited by | Michèle Lavigne |
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117 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
A Captain's Honor (French: L'Honneur d'un capitaine) is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.
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.
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