
Geronimo1967
Theres 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 DIvoire where the war has once again pitched the adjacent French and German forces against each other. The French arent 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 wasnt a war for the white folks, what on Earth did it have to do with the locals? The only Monsieur with any semblance of a brain is his head is Fresnay (Jacques Spiesser) whos ostensibly just there to examine the plant life, but swiftly concluding that mos...