A Captain's Honor

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A Captain's Honor (L'honneur d'un capitaine) is a French film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1982)

starring:

• Nicole Garcia (Patricia Caron, the widow)
• Jacques Perrin (Marcel Caron, the captain)
• Georges Wilson (the barristers president)
• Charles Denner (Gillard, the defense counsel)
• Claude Jade (Valouin, the lawyer of the indictment)
• Georges Marchal (General Keller, a witness)
• Christophe Malavoy (Automarchi, a witness)
• Jean Vigny (Prof. Paulet, a historican)
• Florent Pagny ("la Ficelle")

A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historican on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he wasn't a murderer and didn't practice torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algeria war.

She decides to sue the man who accused him of being a torturer and thus begins an investigation which retraces the Captain's last 2 weeks, day by day.

The film is using numerous flashbacks depicting battle scenes in Algeria.