La France

The story

During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.

Cast & crew

Sylvie TestudCamille

Pascal GreggoryLe Lieutenant

Guillaume DepardieuFrançois

Guillaume VerdierLe cadet

François NégretJacques

Jean-Christophe BouvetElias

Laurent Talon

Laurent TalonAntoine

Pierre LéonAlfred

Benjamin EsdraffoPierre

Didier BriceSean

Laurent Lacotte

Laurent LacotteFrédéric

Bob Boisadan

Bob BoisadanLe guitariste