During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
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Title: A Captain's Honor (1982)
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| Jacques Perrin | ... | Le capitaine Caron | |
| Nicole Garcia | ... | Patricia Caron | |
| Charles Denner | ... | Maître Gillard - un avocat | |
| Georges Wilson | ... | Le bâtonnier | |
| Claude Jade | ... | Maître Valouin - une avocate | |
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Robert Etcheverry | ... | Le commandant Guilloux |
| Georges Marchal | ... | Le général Keller | |
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Jean Vigny | ... | Le professeur Paulet |
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Jean-François Poron | ... | Jakez |
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Hubert Gignoux | ... | Le juge |
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Cyril Barbe | ... | Le soldat infirmier |
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Alain Bastien-Thiry | ... | Pierre Caron |
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Eric Baugin | ... | Éric Maury |
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Patrick Baugin | ... | Patrick Maury |
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Pierre Belot | ... | Le directeur de l'école |
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In einer TV-Sendung bezeichnet Professor Paulet den im Algerienkrieg gefallenen Capitaine Caron als Folterer und Mörder. Dessen Witwe zieht mit der in Kriegsprozessen unerfahreren Anwältin Valouin vor Gericht und klagt wegen Verleumdung. In Rückblenden wird der Fall Caron aufgerollt... Written by Cisnadie <Karl.Fleischer@munich.netsurf.de>
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As usual, Pierre schoendoerffer is very sympathetic to soldiers in the most excellent movie from the early 80s, which tells the story of a dead Captain whose memory is publicly trashed on TV, 20 years after his death. The film is about 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 actors are awesome, which is pretty common in Schoendoerffer's movies. The storyline is using numerous flashbacks depicting battle scenes in Algeria, hunts for terrorists and shots of the Captain's previous life (resistant in WW2 and prisoner in Indochina).
All in all this is a very humanistic movie which main message could be that war is rarely a matter of Good Vs Evil, but rather a matter of Good Vs another Good.