La France

Overview

During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.

Directed by Serge Bozon

Top cast

Sylvie Testud

Camille

Pascal Greggory

Le Lieutenant

Guillaume Depardieu

François

Guillaume Verdier

Le cadet

François Négret

Jacques

Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Elias

L

Laurent Talon

Antoine

Pierre Léon

Alfred

Benjamin Esdraffo

Pierre

Didier Brice

Sean

L

Laurent Lacotte

Frédéric

B

Bob Boisadan

Le guitariste

L

Lionel Turchi

Le violoniste

L

Laurent Valéro

Le bandonéoniste

M

Michel Fossiez

Le hautboïste

E

Emmanuel Levaufre

Le fils d'Elias

Cécile Reigher

Le soeur de Camille

Philippe Chemin

L'agent de liaison

M

Mehdi Zannad

La sentinelle

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