RUNTIME : 90 mn

GENRE : Drame

DVD DISTRIBUTOR : Agence Méditerranéenne de Location de Films (A.M.L.F.)

CREW

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY : Claude Agostini

SET DESIGNER  : Max Douy

EDITOR : Françoise Bonnot

SOUND : Alain Curvelier

BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR

RELEASE DATE  SEPTEMBER 22th 1976

Fiction

Peaceful cohabitation between French and German colonials in remote areas of Cameroon and Ubangi comes to an end in January 1915. For upon learning that their countries are at war, they turn on each other. The French forcefully conscript African locals into their ranks, only to lose the first battle. Following this debacle, a dashing French geographer, and socialist at that, takes charge of his compatriots’ destiny..

A FILM BY : Jean-Jacques Annaud

MUSIC  : Pierre Bachelet

SCREENPLAY  : Jean-Jacques Annaud, Georges Conchon

WITH: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho and Catherine Rouvel

AWARD AND NOMINATIONS: Oscar 1977 for the best foreign film