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A Captain's Honor (French: L'Honneur d'un capitaine) is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.

Plot

A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historian on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he was not a murderer and did not practise torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algerian war.

She decides to sue the man who accused him of being a torturer and thus begins an investigation which retraces the Captain's last two weeks, day by day.

The film uses numerous flashbacks depicting battle scenes in Algeria.

Cast

• Nicole Garcia (Patricia Caron, the widow)
• Jacques Perrin (Marcel Caron, the captain)
• Georges Wilson (the barristers president)
• Charles Denner (Gillard, the defense counsel)
• Claude Jade (Valouin, the lawyer of the indictment)
• Georges Marchal (General Keller, a witness)
• Christophe Malavoy (Automarchi, a witness)
• Jean Vigny (Prof. Paulet, a historian)
• Florent Pagny ("la Ficelle")

External links

• L'Honneur d'un capitaine at IMDb
• L'Honneur d'un capitaine at AllMovie

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