Colonel Chabert (1943)
- Original title
- Le Colonel Chabert
- Directed by
- René Le Hénaff
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A French officer presumed dead in the Napoleonic Wars returns home after ten years. He discovers his wife has remarried and his old identity no longer exists in a changed society.
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What happens
Colonel Chabert (French: Le colonel Chabert) is a 1943 French drama film directed by René Le Hénaff, starring Raimu, Marie Bell, Aimé Clariond and Jacques Baumer. It tells the story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac. James Travers has written, "This superlative adaptation of Balzac's great novel was one of a number of prestigious film productions made under the Occupation (1940–1944)." A later film adaptation of the Balzac story, with Gerard Depardieu in the lead, was released in 1994. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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