At the height of the Algerian war, Sergeant Dallers discovers Lagrange in his patrol, a boy with learning disabilities enlisted by mistake. The discharge papers are delayed and Lagrange, seeking desperately to be accepted, suffers the humiliations inflicted by the other soldiers. Moved, Dallers soon takes him under his wing.
Acting
Mollà's fragile, desperate physicality will wreck you.
Direction
Delerive lets cruelty accumulate like humidity.
Director
Pierre Delerive
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the 1990s French reckoning with Algerian War crimes, it sidesteps grand politics for intimate brutality.
Mollà, a Spaniard, learned French specifically for this role; his linguistic struggle mirrors Lagrange's social one.
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