A Captain's Honor

A Captain's Honor (L'Honneur d'un capitaine) is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.

Plot
A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historian on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he was not a murderer and did not practise torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algerian war.

She decides to sue the man who accused him of being a torturer and thus begins an investigation which retraces the Captain's last two weeks, day by day.

The film uses numerous flashbacks depicting battle scenes in Algeria.

Cast

 * Nicole Garcia (Patricia Caron, the widow)
 * Jacques Perrin (Marcel Caron, the captain)
 * Georges Wilson (the barristers president)
 * Charles Denner (Gillard, the defense counsel)
 * Claude Jade (Valouin, the lawyer of the indictment)
 * Georges Marchal (General Keller, a witness)
 * Christophe Malavoy (Automarchi, a witness)
 * Jean Vigny (Prof. Paulet, a historian)
 * Florent Pagny ("la Ficelle")