
A History, Several Stories, and a Dramatic Narrative: L’Honneur d’un Capitaine [A Captain’s Honor], a Film by Pierre Schoendoerffer
Author(s) -
José Maurício Saldanha Álvarez
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
review of european studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1918-7181
pISSN - 1918-7173
DOI - 10.5539/res.v10n4114
Subject(s) - film director , drama , narrative , honor , art , art history , humanities , literature , movie theater , computer science , operating system
The film L’Honneur d’un Capitaine (1982), directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928–2012), is the media option chosen to address the dramatic accounts of one French colonial soldier’s struggles to rehabilitate his memory.
Objectives: Instead of writing a story essay or a novel, since he was a gifted author, he preferred to play the soldiers' drama in a film.
Result: As a fictional account, however, L'Honneur recovers the past in images imbued with the status of plausibility.
Conclusion: By taking advantage of his enormous experience as a documentary filmmaker, Schoendoerffer produces scenes of a brutal conflict and gives them great authenticity.