Abstract
The film L’Honneur d’un Capitaine (1982), directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928–2012), is the media option chosen to address the dramatic accounts of one French colonial soldier’s struggles to rehabilitate his memory.
 Objectives: Instead of writing a story essay or a novel, since he was a gifted author, he preferred to play the soldiers' drama in a film.
 Result: As a fictional account, however, L'Honneur recovers the past in images imbued with the status of plausibility.
 Conclusion: By taking advantage of his enormous experience as a documentary filmmaker, Schoendoerffer produces scenes of a brutal conflict and gives them great authenticity.
Highlights
Result: As a fictional account, L'Honneur recovers the past in images imbued with the status of plausibility
The film L’Honneur d’un Capitaine (1982), directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928–2012), is the media option chosen to address the dramatic accounts of one French colonial soldier‘s struggles to rehabilitate his memory
Schoendoerffer evokes the Algerian war in his film, not as a general problem, but as an analysis of the actions of a humble captain in command of a small French Army unit, working to pacify a remote location in Algeria
Summary
The film L’Honneur d’un Capitaine (1982), directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928–2012), is the media option chosen to address the dramatic accounts of one French colonial soldier‘s struggles to rehabilitate his memory. Instead of writing a short story, essay, or novel, though he was a gifted author, he preferred to portray the soldier‘s drama in a film. This intermediation between media changed what Certeau called―from the servitude of the written word to the servitude of images‖(Certeau, 1975). The film contextualizes one episode of the colonial war that lasted from 1954 to 1961, a period that remains tragic and painful for France. Set in the 1980s, 20 years after the end of the conflict, the film shows the remains of the deep internal division in France, which was prolonged when the political left wing, the French Communist Party, disappeared with the dissolution of the USSR
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