Two men who are trying to sell a life in uniform to young people fall victim to their own wrath in this allegorical drama.
Acting
Huard and Bigras weaponize charm into something rotting.
Direction
Lanctôt's clinical eye refuses to let you look away.
Writing
Clausewitz as spectral punchline? Unhinged genius.
Director
Micheline Lanctôt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lanctôt based the recruiters' pitch on actual Canadian military recruitment materials from the early 2000s, making the satire almost documentary.
Harald Winter, who plays von Clausewitz, is a German-Canadian actor who reportedly asked Lanctôt if he should play the philosopher as ghost or hallucination; she simply replied 'yes.'
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