A History, Several Stories, and a Dramatic Narrative: L’Honneur d’un Capitaine [A Captain’s Honor], a Film by Pierre Schoendoerffer
Journal: Review of European Studies
Year: 2018

The film L&amp;rsquo;Honneur d&amp;rsquo;un Capitaine (1982), directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928&amp;ndash;2012), is the media option chosen to address the dramatic accounts of one French colonial soldier&amp;rsquo;s struggles to rehabilitate his memory.&#x0D; Objectives: Instead of writing a story essay or a novel, since he was a gifted author, he preferred to play the soldiers&amp;#39; drama in a film.&#x0D; Result: As a fictional account, however, L&amp;#39;Honneur recovers the past in i