Rebellion

Original title: L'ordre et la morale

2011
2h 16m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

2.9K

YOUR RATING

April 1988, Ouvea island, New Caledonia. 30 policemen held hostage by a group of Kanak separatists. 300 soldiers sent from France to restore order. A pair of men face to face: Philippe Legorjus, captain of the GIGN and Alphonse Dianou, head of the hostage takers. Through shared values, they will try to win the dialogue. But in the midst of a presidential election, when the stakes are political, order is not always dictated by morality.

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Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages.Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages.Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

2.9K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 2 nominations

Trivia
The GIGN is the Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale ("National Gendarmerie Intervention Group"). It is a special operations unit of the French National Gendarmerie, set up in 1973 after the massacre at the MunIch Olympic Games.

Crazy credits
Photographs of the actual event, as well as press photos and photos of the real people, are shown during the initial credits.

Connections
Featured in Le dernier assaut: les coulisses de L'ordre et la morale (2012)

Soundtracks
LUXINFO - Jingle RTL
Music by Michel Legrand
(c) 1964 DO DIESE EDITIONS Sarl
(p) 1964 EDIRADIO

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Good historical drama

It's April 22, 1988. Three or four gendarmes are dead and 30 kidnapped by Kanak separatists on the eve of the presidential election in France. They are sending in a platoon of 50 paras to New Caledonia. The PM sends in the Army to take control. There is a political competition between Mitterrand and Chirac, and everything is caught up in it. GIGN Captain Philippe Legorjus (Mathieu Kassovitz) and his men end up following the Army's orders. But soon they have to struggle against the army's barbaric tactics.

It's a good historical drama. It's a bit simplistic with the Army being all bad. I'm not familiar with any of this story to have an opinion about its validity. All I can say is that it works as a dramatic movie.