Black and White in Color

  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • War
9/22/1976
92

The picture that marches to a different drummer

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.

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  • 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...

    July 27, 2025

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