Capitaine Conan

1996
2h 9m

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MA NOTE

Les exploits de guerre du capitaine français Conan et de ses hommes pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et l'intervention alliée dans la guerre civile russe.Les exploits de guerre du capitaine français Conan et de ses hommes pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et l'intervention alliée dans la guerre civile russe.Les exploits de guerre du capitaine français Conan et de ses hommes pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et l'intervention alliée dans la guerre civile russe.

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7,2/10

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Prix
- 10 victoires et 10 nominations au total

Gaffes
Although the film goes to praiseworthy lengths to be faithful in the accurate recreation of costumes of the era, including uniforms, there are some inaccuracies. During the assault in the mountains, a pair of Senegalese Riflemen (Tirailleurs Sénégalais) can be seen wearing their recognisable red fez, waistbands and dark blue uniforms. However, the film takes place in 1918 and the colonial soldiers would not have worn this uniform since 1915. Instead they would have worn the same khaki uniforms and Adrian helmets as the rest of the Balkans expeditionary corps, khaki dress that colonial troops would have also worn on the Western Front, to differentiate themselves from the 'Horizon Blue' wearing 'metropolitan' (mainland France) troops.

Connexions
Featured in Capitaine Tavernier (2014)

Bandes originales
La Mouquère à Germain
Music by Oswald d'Andrea
Lyrics by Jean Cosmos

Commentaires des utilisateurs13

Commentaire en vedette

Nicely shot, very well played, visually impressive but lenghty

This film is about how the military experience can transform a person, and no, it's not about the army making men out of boys.

Conan leads a group of trench cleaners, who, in reality, were thugs and pathological killers who enjoyed butchering their enemies after infiltrating their lines at night.

Problems emerge when the war is over, but some of these men cannot deal with their wartime homicidal pathologies and keep doing what they were trained for and mount a heist which results in killings.

Conan then has to choose between his camaraderie for his men and his responsibilities as an army officer.

This film has many originalities, especially in its war scenes and, I must admit, the whole thing is entertaining.

It's lengthy at times, but Torreton gives a great performance and really deserved the Cesar for best leading role that he got that year.

It is, in my knowledge, the only film which treats of that very particular post-World War I episode, when the "Reds" tried to invade Bulgaria and the French came to stop the expansion of what was not yet know as the Soviet block.