Black and White in Color
La Victoire en chantant
The picture that marches to a different drummer
Overview
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
- Production
- Reggane Films, Artco-Film, France 3 Cinéma, Allied Artists, Les Films S.F.P.
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Cast
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- Director
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Producers
- Jacques Perrin,Giorgio Silvagni,Arthur Cohn
- Cinematography
- Claude Agostini
- Composer
- Pierre Bachelet
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CinemaSerf
July 27, 2025
There’s something really quite fitting about the end of this film that rather sums up the whole approach to Africa that was taken by the European powers. This film is set on the Côte D’Ivoire where the war has once again pitched the adjacent French and German forces against each other. The French aren’t immediately convinced that this is remotely their war, but eventually the soldiers decide that they ought to do their bit so round up their native bearers and start handing out rifles. If it wasn…