Destins: Général De Bollardière

Destins: Général De Bollardière

10

The exceptional portrait of a pacifist general, the only senior officer to have spoken out against torture. This precious testimony still remains censored in France, since no national channel has to date decided to program this documentary. Son and brother of a soldier, General Pâris de Bollardière was destined for a career in arms. He was, for many years, one of the most brilliant representatives of this adventurer career in France, from Narvik to the Algerian War. After fighting in the French maquis, he reached Indochina, where he suddenly found himself in the aggressor's camps. His beliefs are strongly shaken. But it is in Algeria, where the French army practices torture and summary executions, that he takes the big turn. He expresses his contempt to Massu, and is relieved of his command. Until his death in 1986, Jacques de Bollardière fought for world peace, from the Larzac plateaus to the Mururoa atolls.

Similar movies

    MoudjahidateWoman of Courage - Louisa Ighilahriz143 Sahara StreetAbd El-KaderDawn of the DamnedWar for the Planet of the ApesAlgeria in FlamesTestament of YouthJamila, the AlgerianFar from MenField Punishment No.1The Battle of AlgiersThe First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military OccupationRaï Story: From Cheikha Rimitti to Cheba DjenetThe Warrior Queen of JhansiFive Directors On The Battle of AlgiersAn Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian WarChronicle of the Year of EmbersBe WaterCaptain Conan