Black and White in Color

Black and White in Color (1976)

La Victoire en chantant

The picture that marches to a different drummer

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

Date of release
1976-09-22
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (44)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, War
Director
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Niofoin
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 2. Including: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Black and White in Color is a 1976 black comedy war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. The film is set in the African theater of World War I, during the French invasion of the German colony of Kamerun. The film adopts a strong antimilitaristic point of view, and is noteworthy for ridiculing the French side even more harshly than their German counterparts.

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