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17 April 1991 (France) morePlot:
A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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2 nominations moreUser Comments:
A true story but a disappointing movie. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Laurent Grévill | ... | Julien, le chéf | |
| Martin Lamotte | ... | Le 4ème de Section | |
| Chiara Caselli | ... | Léna | |
| Grégoire Colin | ... | François | |
| Johan Rougeul | ... | Galène | |
| Roger Planchon | ... | Le Capitaine | |
| Claude Duneton | ... | Le Professeur de français | |
| Vincent Grass | ... | Le Professeur d'allemand | |
| Christian Barbier | ... | Le Colonel | |
| François Vincentelli | ... | Le Chef des Anciens | |
| Jean-Michel Flagothier | ... | Le Sous-officier dortoir | |
| Eric Frere | ... | Le Sous-officier cachot | |
| Stéphane Desvalois | ... | Feuille Morte | |
| Nicolas Grossetete | ... | Vincent | |
| Alain Fontaine | ... | Rémy |
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Requiem - Introitus - Requiem Aeternam moreFAQ
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This movie tells the true story of a teenager who studies in a military school.These schools were free,but you had to serve five years in the army when you left them.An iron discipline was the golden rule.There was little time to dream or write poems as the hero used to do.The late forties must have been a gloomy atmosphere :WW2 was barely over ,and Indochina war was beginning.And we share all these youngsters ' fear of having to die in action in a not-so-distant future:every time a soldier (former student of the school) is killed ,the whole school pays its respects to him.
But what could have been an interesting depiction is finally very disappointing,particularly when compared to Yves Boisset's "Allons enfants" which tackled a similar subject.There's no dramatic progression and the cardboard characters do not help,which takes the biscuit,cause they are not fiction:particularly weak are the "good"instructor,his wife -with whom the hero has the de rigueur clichéd affair-and the villain -a drunk Martin Lamotte who's not given a single chance to shine-,not to mention the teacher "who teaches German but who does not approve of the concentration camps".Music and voice-over are intrusive.
Take "Allons enfants" (1981) instead.Yves Boisset is not that much subtle a director,but his movie has guts ,which is toatlly missing here.