A Captain's Honor

A Captain's Honor (French: L'Honneur d'un capitaine) is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.

A Captain's Honor
Directed by	Pierre Schoendoerffer
Written by	Jean-François Chauvel Pierre Schoendoerffer Daniel Yonnet
Produced by	Georges de Beauregard
Starring	Nicole Garcia Jacques Perrin Georges Wilson Charles Denner Claude Jade Georges Marchal Christophe Malavoy Jean Vigny Florent Pagny
Cinematography	Bernard Lutic
Edited by	Michèle Lavigne
Music by	Philippe Sarde
Release date	29 December 1982 (1982-12-29)
Running time	117 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

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