Black and White in Color (1976)

Original title

La Victoire en chantant

Directed by

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Genre

drama film, comedy film, war film, comedy drama

Country

Ivory Coast, Germany, France, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

U

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set during World War I in colonial Africa, this film follows a group of French settlers who suddenly decide to fight their German neighbors. It mocks the absurdity and brutality of war, especially targeting the French colonizers.

satiricalabsurdslow-pacedbleakly comicgrimfarcetrenchantantimilitaristic

What happens

Black and White in Color (French: La Victoire en chantant, then Noirs et Blancs en couleur for the 1977 re-issue) is a 1976 black comedy war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. The film is set in the African theater of World War I, during the French invasion of the German colony of Kamerun. The film adopts a strong antimilitaristic point of view, and is noteworthy for ridiculing the French side even more harshly than their German counterparts. The original French title is the first four words (the first line) of the song Le Chant du départ, a French military song. It won the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; it was submitted to the Académie de Côte d'Ivoire, resulting in that country's sole Oscar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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