在1954年,越南战争的Diên Biên Phu时期,一支由一名经验不足的中尉指挥的法国巡逻队逐渐被越南人民军消耗殆尽。最终只剩下一位曾在魏玛德国陆军服役的前阿尔萨斯人副官。他将在1960年的阿尔及利亚死亡。这部影片采用了半纪录片的风格,对战争中士兵面临的艰难选择进行了有效的评价。正如越南电影中常见的那样,敌人只是从远处窥视,摄像机作为一群旁观者中的无身体观察者。贝特兰·塔弗尼尔担任了该片的联合编剧。
In 1954 Vietnam, at the time of Diên Biên Phu, a French unit on patrol under the command of an inexperienced lieutenant is gradually depleted by Vietminh until only an ex-Wehrmacht Alsatian adjutant remains. He is to die, a title informs us, in Algeria in 1960. Semi-documentary in style, this is an effectively low-key appraisal of the difficult choices with which war confronts its soldiers. As so often in Vietnam films the enemy is only glimpsed from a distance, the camera remaining a disembodied observer among the group. Bertrand Tavernier acted as co-writer on the film.…