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Release year: 1973

Storyline

Three French conscripts with diverse political motives, are sent to a disciplinary battalion in the midst of the Algerian war. Major Lecoq is to build an elite unit with these wayward soldiers who are exposed to war, torture and death.

Top credits

Directors

Yves Boisset

Writers

Cast

Jacques Spiesser — Rémy March
Jacques Villeret — Le soldat Girot
Jacques Weber — Alain Charpentier
Claude Brosset — L'adjudant chef Santoni

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Did you know

• Gerard Depardieu was first supposed to play the character which eventually went to Jean-François Balmer.

• The extras who play the cops in uniform, during the street riots, were actually hippies whose hair was cut for most of them, but not all of them.

• When the film was released in France, the gross was excellent but there were some riots because of the subject; coktails molotovs thrown by extreme right wing members.

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