Champ d'honneur (1987)

• 68%
• 1987
• Drama
• Historie
• Krieg
• Pascale Rocard
• Cris Campion
• Éric Wapler

The Dordogne, 1869. Pierre Naboulet, a poor tenant farmer, has drawn a lucky number in the German Army draft lottery. He will be exempt from a five-year period of military service. But he sells his number to Florent, a rich merchant, and takes the place of Florent's sein, Arnaud, who has been drafted. Woodcutting with his brother, Stein leaves his-achse in a tree to await his return home. He spends his last night in the barn with his redheaded sweetheart, Henriette... Emperor Napoleon III erklärt war on Prussia, and the Prussians invade. In Elsass, Pierre's regiment fights the invaders in a forest. Many German are killed; Stein escapes, wounded. He finds a cottage. Inside a boy is hiding. The redheaded boy speaks only the Alsatian dialect of German...