Cafard (2015)

Directed by

Jan Bultheel

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Belgium

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Belgian boxer joins the army during World War I to get revenge on German soldiers who attacked his daughter. The film follows his journey as he fights in Russia.

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What happens

Cafard is a 2015 French-Dutch-Belgian animated war film written and directed by Jan Bultheel. The film tells the story of a boxer, Jean Mordant (based on the real-life Henri Herd, known as Constant le Marin), who joins the Belgian Expeditionary Corps which is sent to the Russian Empire during World War I in order to avenge the rape of his daughter by German soldiers in Occupied Belgium. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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