A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.
Acting
Trintignant's icy manipulation is masterclass villainy.
Direction
Boutron traps you in Rafael's suffocating transformation.
Director
Pierre Boutron
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Colonel Masagual
Grégoire Colin
Rafael
Marc Lavoine
Casado
Laurent Terzieff
Père Armendariz
Dayle Haddon
Cecilia Harrington-Forbes
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Aizpiri
Marc Betton
Sergent Fabra
Françoise Christophe
La douairière
Jean-Louis Richard
Commandant Romerales
Jean Davy
Le père Maurel
Alain Doutey
Le docteur
Jocelyn Quivrin
Jean
Philippe Morier-Genoud
Los Cobos
Dominique Guillo
Le chauffeur espagnol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Boutron adapted this from his own novel, drawing on his father's fascist sympathies—a rare case of an artist dissecting family sin on screen.
Grégoire Colin was actually 17 during filming, making Rafael's age-authentic vulnerability terrifyingly real.
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