A 1933 French rom-com where Cupid wears army boots and everyone’s pining for the wrong person.
Désiré Chopin, hunter on foot and friend of François de Crecy, uses a thousand tricks to encourage the love between François and Gaby. Little Margoton is in love with Désire who disdains her. She becomes the darling of the battalion.
Acting
Armand Bernard's comic timing steals every barracks scene he's in.
Production
Glimpses of authentic 1930s French military life before everything changed.
Director
Jacques Darmont
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 1933, this captures a fleeting moment of lighthearted military life before the shadow of WWII fell across France.
Director Jacques Darmont largely vanished from film history; most of his output, including this, survives only in fragments or single prints.
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