A war film about North African soldiers, fighting for France, in world war 2.
The discrimination shown in this film is very interesting – it’s apparently based on reality, but, I obviously don’t know that for a fact. The interestingness is that even though these soldiers were fighting to free France, and fighting a common enemy, requested to do so by France, the soldiers were still treated as second class people.
It’s also depressing that the end of the film mentions this: “In 1959, a law was passed to freeze the pensions of infantrymen from former French colonies about to become independent. In 2002, after endless hearings, the French government was ordered to pay the pensions in full. But successive governments have pushed back this payment.”
The film itself was okay, story wise, it was a bit confusing as to where the soldiers were, and what the thread of the story was. It got a bit better near the end.
The acting, however, was top notch in this film.
I watched half of this movie in blu-ray, the other half on DVD. Blu-ray was definitely higher quality – shame my PS3 didn’t seem to like 2 different replacement discs though!
I give it 7/10