La France

La France

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.

Cast for La France...

Pascal Greggory
Le Lieutenant
Laurent Lacotte
Frédéric
Bob Boisadan
Le guitariste
Lionel Turchi
Le violoniste
Laurent Valéro
Le bandonéoniste
Michel Fossiez
Le hautboïste
Emmanuel Levaufre
Le fils d'Elias
Cécile Reigher
Le soeur de Camille
Philippe Chemin
L'agent de liaison
Mehdi Zannad
La sentinelle