Travernier's thematic follow-up to his 1989 WWI film "Life and Nothing But" in which a desensitized guerrilla platoon pillages and plunders the Balkan front for an entire year after the armistice. Script based on Roger Vercel's 1934 autobiographical novel. Awarded 2 Cesars (French Oscars) for best director--Travernier, and best actor--Phillipe Torreton.
DVD Features:
Region 0
Keep Case
Additional Release Materials:
Documentary - 1. UN FILM SUR BERTRAND TAVERNIER (54 min.)
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Production Designer
Guy-Claude Francois:
Director of Photography
Alain Choquart:
Review 1:
"...Unfolds as vividly and gracefully as the best 19th-century novel....It's Torreton's fiery turn that yields the timeless truth..." -- Rating: A-
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.132 08/21/1998
Review 2:
"...A vast yet subtle film....[Tavernier] creates one of his most memorably ambiguous characters while also giving the film's battle scenes an unusual, visceral style....[Torreton] powerfully embodies the film's central questions..."
Source: New York Times
p.C11 09/10/1997
Review 3:
"...It brings home the brutal senselessness of war by immersing the viewer in frighteningly vivid battle scenes....It also strikes a haunting tone..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.33 01/02/1998