(Black and White in Color)
(Sehnsucht nach Afrika)
(Original Title: "La Victoire en chantant")
Ivory Coast/France/W. Germany/Switzerland (1976): Drama/War
The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, this picture is set during World War I. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, a French trading post in West Central Africa finds itself at odds with a formerly peaceful German post, for no other reason than their parent countries are at war. The newly xenophobic French traders attack the Germans, only to fail in their efforts. Socialist Jacques Spiesser is put in charge of the debilitated French contingent, utterly discarding his former high ideals in the process. Filmed on location on the Ivory Coast. (US distributor: Allied Artists, 1977) (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)
1 nomination, 1 Award
· Best Foreign Language Film 1976: (Ivory Coast) (Arthur Cohn, Jacques Perrin & Giorgio Silvagni - Producers)