LA VIE ET RIEN D'AUTRE (1989)

Cast

Plot

In Eastern France, in the aftermath of WW1, Major Dellaplane's unenviable task of identifying the missing 350,000 French soldiers, the countless dead and the shell-shocked, is continually being diverted by a military establishment bent on glorifying French courage with a funeral ceremony for the Unknown Soldier. The film reveals bureaucratic hypocrisy and corruption, post-war poverty and racism, social inequality and the deceptions of romantic involvement. The major meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman searching for her missing husband in this passionate, noble and humane tale